Albert Banchs' Publications

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Journal Publications
Conference Publications
National Conferences
Book Chapters
Invited Papers and Presentations
Posters and Demonstrations

Journal Publications

A. Banchs, G. de Veciana, V. Sciancalepore, X. Costa-Perez, "Resource Allocation for Network Slicing in Mobile Networks," IEEE Access, to appear.

D. Bega, M. Gramaglia, R. Perez, M. Fiore, A. Banchs, X. Costa-Perez, "AI-Based Autonomous Control, Management, and Orchestration in 5G: From Standards to Algorithms," IEEE Network, vol. 34, no. 6, November 2020.

C. Fiandrino, C. Zhang, P. Patras, A. Banchs, J. Widmer, "A Machine-Learning-Based Framework for Optimizing the Operation of Future Networks," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 58, no. 6, June 2020.

D. Bega, M. Gramaglia, A. Garcia-Saavedra, M. Fiore, A. Banchs, X. Costa-Perez, "Network Slicing Meets Artificial Intelligence: An AI-Based Framework for Slice Management," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 58, no. 6, June 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.

A. Banchs, D. M. Gutierrez-Estevez, M. Fuentes, M. Boldi, S. Provvedi, "A 5G Mobile Network Architecture to Support Vertical Industries," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 57, no. 12, December 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.

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.

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.

I. Ucar, C. Donato, P. Serrano, A. Garcia-Saavedra, A. Banchs, "On the energy efficiency of rate and transmission power control in 802.11," Computer Communications, vol. 117, February 2018.

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.

A. Azcorra, I. Ucar, F. Gringoli, A. Banchs, P. Serrano, "uNap: Practical micro-sleeps for 802.11 WLANs," Computer Communications, vol. 110, September 2017.

D. Bega, M. Gramaglia, C. J. Bernardos, A. Banchs, X. Costa-Perez, "Toward the network of the future: From enabling technologies to 5G concepts," Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, vol. 28, no. 8, August 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.

J. Ortin, C. Donato, P. Serrano, A. Banchs, "Resource-on-Demand Schemes in 802.11 WLANs With Non-Zero Start-Up Times," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 34, no. 12, December 2016.

H. Droste, P. Rost, M. Doll, I. Berberana, C. Mannweiler, M. Breitbach, A. Banchs, M. A. Puente, "An adaptive 5G multiservice and multitenant radio access network architecture," Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, vol. 27, no. 9, September 2016.

V. Sciancalepore, V. Mancuso, A. Banchs, S. Zaks, A. Capone, "Enhanced Content Update Dissemination Through D2D in 5G Cellular Networks," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 15, no. 11, August 2016.

C. Vlachou, A. Banchs, P. Salvador, J. Herzen, P. Thiran, "Analysis and Enhancement of CSMA/CA with Deferral in Power-Line Communications," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 34, no. 7, July 2016.

P. Rost, A. Banchs, I. Berberana, M. Breitbach, M. Doll, H. Droste, C. Mannweiler, M. A. Puente, K. Samdanis, B. Sayadi, "Mobile network architecture evolution toward 5G," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 54, no. 5, May 2016.

S. Avallone, A. Banchs, "A Channel Assignment and Routing Algorithm for Energy Harvesting Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 34, no. 5, May 2016.

A. Banchs, J. Ortin, A. Garcia-Saavedra, D. J. Leith, P. Serrano, "Thwarting Selfish Behavior in 802.11 WLANs," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 24, no. 1, February 2016.

V. Sciancalepore, D. Giustiniano, A. Banchs, A. Hossmann-Picu, "Offloading Cellular Traffic Through Opportunistic Communications: Analysis and Optimization," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 34, no. 1, January 2016.

P. Serrano, A. Garcia-Saavedra, G. Bianchi, A. Banchs, A. Azcorra, "Per-Frame Energy Consumption in 802.11 Devices and Its Implication on Modeling and Design," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 23, no. 4, August 2015.

J. Widmer, A. Capalbo, A. Fernandez Anta, A. Banchs, "Efficient Interlayer Network Codes for Fair Layered Multicast Streaming," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 23, no. 4, August 2015.

C. Donato, P. Serrano, A. de la Oliva, A. Banchs, C. J. Bernardos, "An openflow architecture for energy-aware traffic engineering in mobile networks," IEEE Network, vol. 29, no. 4, July 2015.

A. Garcia-Saavedra, A. Banchs, P. Serrano, J. Widmer, "Adaptive Mechanism for Distributed Opportunistic Scheduling," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communicatons, vol. 14, no. 6, June 2015.

A. Banchs, A. de la Oliva, L. Eznarriaga, D. R. Kowalski, P. Serrano, "Performance Analysis and Algorithm Selection for Reliable Multicast in IEEE 802.11aa Wireless LAN," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 63, no. 8, October 2014.

P. Salvador, V. Mancuso, P. Serrano, F. Gringoli, A. Banchs, "VoIPiggy: Analysis and Implementation of a Mechanism to Boost Capacity in IEEE 802.11 WLANs Carrying VoIP traffic," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 13, no. 7, July 2014.

A. Garcia-Saavedra, P. Serrano, A. Banchs, "Energy-Efficient Optimization for Distributed Opportunistic Scheduling," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 18, no. 6, June 2014.

C.J. Bernardos, A. de la Oliva, P. Serrano, A. Banchs, H. Jin, L.M. Contreras, J.C. Zuniga, "An Architecture for Software Defined Wireless Networking," IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, vol. 21, no. 3, April 2014.

A. Banchs, B. Prabhakaran, "Special Section on Wireless Mobile and Multimedia Networks [Guest Editorial]," Pervasive and Mobile Computing, vol. 11, April 2014.

A. de la Oliva, A. Banchs, P. Serrano, F. A. Zdarsky, "Providing throughput guarantees in heterogeneous wireless mesh networks," Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, vol. 14, no. 4, March 2014.

A. Banchs, A. Garcia-Saavedra, P. Serrano, J. Widmer, "A Game Theoretic Approach to Distributed Opportunistic Scheduling," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 21, no. 5, October 2013.

M. Portoles-Comeras, A. Cabellos-Aparicio, P. Serrano, J. Mangues-Bafalluy, J. Nunez-Martinez, M. Sole, A. Banchs, J. Domingo-Pascual, "Modeling and exploiting the relation between packet losses and hidden traffic," IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 2, no. 4, August 2013.

M. Uruena, R. Cuevas. A. Cuevas, A. Banchs, "A model to quantify the success of a Sybil attack targeting RELOAD/Chord resources," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 17, no. 2, February 2013.

P. Serrano, P. Patras, A. Mannocci, V. Mancuso, A. Banchs, "Control Theoretic Optimization of 802.11 WLANs: Implementation and Experimental Evaluation," Computer Networks, vol. 57, no. 1, January 2013.

A. Garcia-Saavedra, P. Serrano, A. Banchs, M. Hollick, "Balancing Energy Efficiency and Throughput Fairness in IEEE 802.11 WLANs," Pervasive and Mobile Computing, vol. 8, no. 5, October 2012.

P. Serrano, A. de la Oliva, P. Patras, V. Mancuso, A. Banchs, "Greening Wireless Communications: Status and Future Directions," Computer Communications, vol. 35, no. 14, August 2012.

A. Banchs, P. Serrano, P. Patras, M. Natkaniec, "Providing Throughput and Fairness Guarantees in Virtualized WLANs through Control Theory," Mobile Networks and Applications, vol. 17, no. 4, August 2012.

P. Patras, A. Banchs, P. Serrano, "A Control Theoretic Scheme for Efficient Video Transmission over IEEE 802.11e EDCA WLANs," ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications, vol. 8, no. 3, July 2012.

A. de la Oliva, A. Banchs, P. Serrano, "Throughput and energy-aware routing for 802.11 based mesh networks," Computer Communications, vol. 35, no. 12, July 2012.

A. Banchs, L. Lenzini, I. Stavrakakis, "Special Section on Wireless Networking [Guest Editorial]," Computer Communications, vol. 34, no. 17, November 2011.

A. de la Oliva, I. Soto, A. Banchs, J. Lessmann, C. Niephaus, T. Melia, "IEEE 802.21: Media independence beyond handover," Computer Standards & Interfaces, vol. 33, no. 6, November 2011.

P. Patras, A. Banchs, P. Serrano, A. Azcorra, "A Control-Theoretic Approach to Distributed Optimal Configuration of 802.11 WLANs," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 10, no. 6, June 2011.

F. Zdarsky, S. Robitzsch, A. Banchs, "Security analysis of wireless mesh backhauls for mobile networks," Journal of Network and Computer Applications, vol. 34, no. 2, March 2011.

R. Cuevas, A. Cuevas, M. Urueña, A. Banchs, "Applying Low Discrepancy Sequences for Node-ID Assignment in P2PSIP," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 15, no. 2, February 2011.

P. Serrano, C. Bernardos, A. de la Oliva, A. Banchs, I. Soto, M. Zink, "FloorNet: Deployment and Evaluation of a Multihop Wireless 802.11 Testbed," EURASIP Journal of Wireless Communications and Networking, vol. 2010, 2010.

A. Banchs, P. Serrano, L. Vollero, "Providing Service Guarantees in 802.11e EDCA WLANs with Legacy Stations," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 9, no. 8, August 2010.

L. Lenzini, M. Luise, A. Banchs, C. Mecklenbrauker, "A Report on European Wireless 2010 [Global Communications Newsletter]," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 48, no. 7, July 2010.

P. Serrano, A. Banchs, P. Patras, A. Azcorra, "Optimal Configuration of 802.11e EDCA for Real-Time and Data Traffic," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 59, no. 5, June 2010.

P. Serrano, M. Hollick, A. Banchs, "On the Trade-Off between Throughput Maximization and Energy Consumption Minimization in IEEE 802.11 WLANs," Journal of Communications and Networks, vol. 12, no. 2, April 2010.

R. Boutaba, S. Murphy, A. Banchs, "Special Issue on Wireless Multi-Hop Networking for Infrastructure Access [Guest Editorial]," Computer Networks, vol. 54, no. 2, February 2010.

P. Serrano, A. Banchs, V. Targon, J. F. Kukielka, "Detecting selfish configurations in 802.11 WLANs," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 14, no. 2, February 2010.

P. Patras, A. Banchs, P. Serrano, "A Control Theoretic Approach for Throughput Optimization in IEEE 802.11e EDCA WLANs," Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), vol. 6, no. 6, December 2009.

A. Kassler, F. Zdarsky, A. Azcorra, A. Banchs, "Workshop on Carrier Grade Mesh Networks [Global Communications Newsletter]," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 47, no. 10, October 2009.

I. Soto, C. Bernardos, M. Calderon, A. Banchs, A. Azcorra, "Nemo-enabled localized mobility support for internet access in automotive scenario," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 47, no. 5, May 2009.

A. Banchs, D. Qiao, D. Westhoff;, "Dependability issues with ubiquitous wireless access [Guest Editorial]," IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, vol. 15, no. 5, October 2008.

A. de la Oliva, T. Melia, A. Banchs, I. Soto and A. Vidal, "An Overview of IEEE 802.21: Media Independent Handover Services," IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, vol. 15, no. 4, August 2008.

A. Banchs and P. Serrano, "Revisiting 802.11e EDCA Performance Analysis," Wireless Personal Communications, vol. 43, no. 4, December 2007.

P. Serrano, A. Banchs, A. Azcorra, "A Throughput and Delay Model for IEEE 802.11e EDCA Under Non Saturation," Wireless Personal Communications, vol. 43, no. 2, October 2007.

A. Banchs, P. Serrano and H. Oliver, "Proportional Fair Throughput Allocation in Multirate 802.11e EDCA Wireless LANs," Wireless Networks, vol. 13, no. 5, October 2007.

A. de la Oliva, T. Melia, A. Vidal, C. Bernardos, I. Soto, A. Banchs, "A case study: IEEE 802.21 enabled mobile terminals for optimised WLAN/3G handovers," ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R), vol. 11, no. 2, April 2007.

A. Banchs, P. Serrano and L. Vollero, "Reducing the impact of legacy stations on voice traffic in 802.11e EDCA WLANs," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 11, no. 4, April 2007.

A. Banchs and L. Vollero, "Throughput Analysis and Optimal Configuration of 802.11e EDCA," Computer Networks, vol. 50, no. 11, August 2006.

R. Aguiar, S. Sargento, A. Banchs, C. Bernardos, M. Calderon, I. Soto, M. Liebsch, T. Melia, P. Pacyna, "Scalable QoS-aware Mobility for Future Mobile Operators," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 44, no. 6, June 2006.

A. Banchs, P. Serrano and A. Azcorra, "End-to-end Delay Analysis and Admission Control in 802.11 DCF WLANs", Computer Communications, vol. 29, no. 7, April 2006.

A. Banchs, A. Azcorra, C. Garcia and R. Cuevas, "Applications and Challenges of the 802.11e EDCA mechanism: An Experimental Study", IEEE Network, vol. 19, no. 4, July 2005.

A. Banchs and L. Vollero, "A Delay Model for 802.11e EDCA", IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 9, no. 6, June 2005.

L. Vollero, A. Banchs and G. Iannello, "ACKS: A technique to reduce the impact of legacy stations in 802.11e EDCA WLANs", IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 9, no. 4, April 2005.

Conference Publications

M. Gramaglia, V. Sciancalepore, F. J. Fernandez-Maestro, R. Perez, P. Serrano, A. Banchs, "Experimenting with SRv6: a Tunneling Protocol supporting Network Slicing in 5G and beyond," Proceedings of IEEE CAMAD 2020, Virtual Conference, September 2020.

R. Perez, J. Garcia-Reinoso, A. Zabala, P. Serrano, A. Banchs, "A Monitoring Framework for Multi-Site 5G Platforms," Proceedings of EuCNC 2020, Virtual Conference, June 2020.

C. Marquez, M. Gramaglia, M. Fiore, A. Banchs, Z. Smoreda, "Identifying Common Periodicities in Mobile Service Demands with Spectral Analysis," Proceedings of MecComNet 2020, Arona, Italy, June 2020.

J. Zheng, G. de Veciana, A. Banchs, "Constrained Network Slicing Games: Achieving service guarantees and network efficiency," Proceedings of WiOpt 2020, Virtual Conference, June 2020.

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.

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.

D. Bega, M. Gramaglia, M. Fiore, A. Banchs, X. Costa-Perez, "alpha-OMC: Cost-Aware Deep Learning for Mobile Network Resource Orchestration," Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Network Intelligence (NI 2019), Paris, France, May 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.

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, M. Portoles, A. Banchs, F. Maino, "SEMPER: A Stateless Traffic Engineering Solution for WAN based on MP-TCP," Proceedings of IEEE ICC 2018, Kansas City, MO, May 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.

J. Zheng, P. Caballero, G. de Veciana, S. J. Baek, A. Banchs, "Statistical Multiplexing and Traffic Shaping Games for Network Slicing," Proceedings of WiOpt, Paris, France, May 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.

I. Ucar, C. Donato, P. Serrano, A. Garcia-Saavedra, A. Azcorra, A. Banchs, "Revisiting 802.11 Rate Adaptation from Energy Consumption's Perspective," ACM MSWiM 2016, Malta, November 2016.

M. Marciel, R. Cuevas, A. Banchs, R. Gonzalez, S. Traverso, M. Ahmed, A. Azcorra, "Understanding the detection of view fraud in Video Content Portals," WWW'2016, Montreal, Canada, April 2016.

J. Herzen; A. Banchs; V. Shneer; P. Thiran, "CSMA/CA in Time and Frequency Domains," IEEE ICNP 2015, San Francisco, USA, November 2015.

V. Sciancalepore, I. Filippini, V. Mancuso, A. Capone, A. Banchs, "A semi-distributed mechanism for Inter-cell Interference Coordination exploiting the ABSF paradigm," IEEE SECON 2015, Seattle, USA, June 2015.

D. Sabella, P. Rost, A. Banchs, V. Savin, M. Consonni, M. Di Girolamo, M. Lalam, A. Maeder, I. Berberana, "Benefits and Challenges of Cloud Technologies for 5G Architecture," 1st International Workshop on 5G Architecture (5GArch 2015), Glasgow, UK, May 2015.

A. Banchs, M. Breitbach, X. Costa, U. Doetsch, S. Redana, C. Sartori, H. Schotten, "A Novel Radio Multiservice Adaptive Network Architecture for 5G Networks," 1st International Workshop on 5G Architecture (5GArch 2015), Glasgow, UK, May 2015.

P. Caballero, X. Costa-Perez, K. Samdanis, A. Banchs, "RMSC: A Cell Slicing Controller for Virtualized Multi-Tenant Mobile Networks," IEEE 81st Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring), Glasgow, UK, May 2015.

C. Vlachou, A. Banchs, J, Herzen, P. Thiran, "Analyzing and Boosting the Performance of Power-Line Communication Networks," ACM CoNEXT 2014, Sydney, Australia, December 2014.

C. Vlachou, A. Banchs, J. Herzen, P. Thiran, "On the MAC for Power-Line Communications: Modeling Assumptions and Performance Tradeoffs," IEEE ICNP 2014, North Carlina, USA, October 2014 (Best Paper Runner-up award).

V. Sciancalepore, V. Mancuso, A. Banchs, S. Zaks, A. Capone , "Interference Coordination Strategies for Content Update Dissemination in LTE-A," IEEE INFOCOM 2014, Toronto, Canada, April 2014.

A. de la Oliva, P. Serrano, P. Salvador, A. Banchs, "Performance Evaluation of the IEEE 802.11aa Multicast Mechanisms for Video Streaming", IEEE WoWMoM 2013, Madrid, Spain, June 2013.

V. Sciancalepore, V. Mancuso, A. Banchs, "BASICS: Scheduling Base Stations to Mitigate Interferences in Cellular Networks", IEEE WoWMoM 2013, Madrid, Spain, June 2013.

A. Garcia-Saavedra, P. Serrano, A. Banchs, G. Bianchi, "Energy consumption anatomy of 802.11 devices and its implication on modeling and design," ACM CoNEXT 2012, Nice, France, December 2012.

A. Garcia-Saavedra, A. Banchs, P. Serrano, J. Widmer, "Distributed Opportunistic Scheduling: A Control Theoretic Approach," IEEE INFOCOM 2012, Orlando, FL, March 2012.

P. Salvador, F. Gringoli, V. Mancuso, P. Serrano, A. Mannocci, A. Banchs, "VoIPiggy: Implementation and evaluation of a mechanism to boost voice capacity in 802.11 WLANs," IEEE INFOCOM 2012 Mini-Conference, Orlando, FL, March 2012.

J. Widmer, A. Capalbo, A. Fernandez Anta, A. Banchs, "Rate allocation for layered multicast streaming with inter-layer network coding," IEEE INFOCOM 2012 Mini-Conference, Orlando, FL, March 2012.

J. Barcelo, B. Bellalta, M. Oliver, A. Banchs, "Collision-Free Operation in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks," 4th International Workshop on Multiple Access Communications (MACOM 2011), Trento, Italy, September 2011.

A. Garcia-Saavedra, P. Serrano, A. Banchs, M. Hollick, "Energy-efficient fair channel access for IEEE 802.11 WLANs," IEEE WoWMoM 2011, Lucca, Italy, June 2011.

D. Corujo, A. Banchs, T. Melia, M. Wetterwald, L. Badia, R. L. Aguiar, "Video-enhancing functional architecture for the MEDIEVAL project," in Proceedings of the 2nd International ICST Conference on Mobile Networks & Management (MONAMI 2010), Aveiro, Portugal, September 2010.

L. Badia, R. Aguiar, A. Banchs, T. Melia, M. Wetterwald, M. Zorzi, "Wireless access architectures for video applications: the approach proposed in the MEDIEVAL project," MediaWiN 2010, Riccione, Italy, June 2010.

J. Lessmann, M. Schoeeler, F. Zdarsky, A. Banchs, "Rope ladder routing: Position-based multipath routing for wireless mesh networks," IEEE HotMESH 2010, Montreal, Canada, June 2010.

P. Serrano, A. Garcia-Saavedra, M. Hollick, A. Banchs, "On the energy efficiency of IEEE 802.11 WLANs," European Wireless 2010, Lucca, Italy, April 2010.

D. Chieng, D. V. Hugo, A. Banchs, "A Cost Sensitivity Analysis for Carrier Grade Wireless Mesh Networks with Tabu Optimization," CARMEN Workshop 2010, San Diego, CA, March 2010.

M. Portoles, A. Cabellos, J. Mangues, A. Banchs, J. Domingo, "Impact of transient CSMA/CA access delays on Active Bandwidth Measurements", ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Chicago, IL, November 2009.

R. Cuevas, M. Uruena, A. Banchs, "Routing Fairness in Chord: Analysis and Enhancement", IEEE INFOCOM 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, April 2009.

P. Serrano. A. De La Oliva, C. Bernardos, I. Soto, A. Banchs, A. Azcorra, "A CARMEN mesh experience: deployment and results," IEEE HotMESH'09, Kos, Greece, June 2009.

P. Patras, A. Banchs, P. Serrano, "A Control Theoretic Framework for Performance Optimization of IEEE 802.11 Networks," IEEE INFOCOM 2009 Student Workshop, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 2009.

A. Banchs, N. Bayer, D. Chieng; A. de la Oliva, B. Gloss, M. Kretschme, S. Murphy, M. Natkaniec, F. Zdarsky, "CARMEN: Delivering carrier grade services over wireless mesh networks," IEEE PIMRC'08 SocialNets Workshop, Cannes, France, September 2008.

P. Serrano, A. Banchs, J. F. Kukielka, G. d'Agostino, S. Murphy, "Configuration of IEEE 802.11e EDCA for Voice and Data traffic: An Experimental Study," ICT Mobile Summit 2008, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2008.

P. Serrano, A. Banchs and J. F. Kukielka, "Optimal Configuration of 802.11e EDCA under Voice Traffic", IEEE GLOBECOM 2007, Washington D.C., November 2007.

S. Sargento, M. Almeida, D. Corujo, V. Jesus, R. Aguiar, G. Carneiro, J. Godzecki, A. Banchs, P. Serrano, "Integration of Mobility and Quality-of-Service in 4G Networks," 3rd ACM International Workshop on QoS and Security for Wireless and Mobile Networks (Q2SWinet 2007), October 2007, Chania, Crete Island, Greece.

P. Raptis, V. Vitsas, A. Banchs, K. Paparrizos, "Delay Distribution Analysis of IEEE 802.11 with Variable Packet Length," IEEE VTC 2007 Spring, Dublin, Ireland, April 2007.

S. Sargento, T. Melia, A. Banchs, I. Soto, J. Moedeker, L. Marchetti, "Mobility through Heterogeneous Networks in a 4G Environment," Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) 17th Meeting, Heidelberg, Germany, November 2006.

P. Raptis, Albert Banchs, V. Vitsas, K. Paparrizos, P. Chatzimisios, "Delay Distribution Analysis of the RTS/CTS mechanism of IEEE 802.11," IEEE LCN 2006, Tampa, FL, November 2006.

P. Raptis, A. Banchs, K. Paparrizos, P. Chatzimisios, "A Simple and Effective Delay Distribution Analysis for IEEE 802.11," IEEE PIMRC 2006, Helsinki, Finland, September 2006.

M. Wetterwald, F. Filali, C. Bonnet, D. Nussbaum, L. Gauthier, H. A. Menouni, A. Banchs, C. J. Bernardos, M. Liebsch, T. Melia, J. Ribeiro, C. Lafouge, "A Flexible Framework for the Support of Heterogeneous Wireless Networks," IST Mobile & Wireless Communications Summit, Myconos, Greece, June 2006.

T. Melia, M. Liebsch, P. Serrano, A. Banchs, "The Daidalos Architecture for Mobility and QoS," World Telecommunications Congress (WTC 2006), Budapest, Hungary, May 2006.

P. Serrano, A. Banchs, T. Melia and L. Vollero, "Performance Anomalies of nonoptimally configured Wireless LANs", IEEE WCNC 2006, Las Vegas, NV, April 2006.

P. Serrano, A. Banchs and J. F. Kukielka, "Detection of Malicious Parameter Configurations in 802.11e EDCA", IEEE GLOBECOM 2005, St. Louis, Missouri, November 2005.

X. Perez-Costa, K. Heinze, A. Banchs and S. Sallent, "Analysis of Performance Issues in an IP-based UMTS Radio Access Network", Eigth ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM), Montreal, Quebec, October 2005.

G. Carneiro, C. Garcia, P. Neves, Z. Chen, M. Wetterwald, M. Ricardo, P. Serrano, S. Sargento and A. Banchs, "The DAIDALOS Architecture for QoS over Heterogeneous Wireless Networks", IST Mobile & Wireless Communications Summit, Dresden, Germany, June 2005.

A. Banchs, "Analysis of the Delay Distribution in 802.11 DCF: Step Towards End-to-end Delay Guarantees in WLAN", 5th International Workshop on Quality of future Internet Services (QofIS'04), Barcelona, Spain, September 2004.

X. Perez, A. Banchs, J. Noguera and S. Sallent, "Optimal Radio Acess Bearer Configuration for Voice over IP in 3G UMTS networks", European Wireless 2004, Barcelona, Spain, February 2004.

A. Banchs, X. Perez and D. Qiao, "Providing Throughput Guarantees in 802.11e Wireless LANs", Eighteenth International Teletraffic Congress (ITC18), Berlin, Germany, September 2003.

A. Banchs, S. Tartarelli and A. Descamps, "Intra-Customer Admission Control for TCP flows in DiffServ Assured Forwarding", IEEE GLOBECOM 2002, Taipei, Taiwan, November 2002.

A. Banchs, F. Raspall, D. Anguera and S. Sallent, "Core Stateless Fair Bandwidth Allocation for Unicast and Multicast Flows," Fourth International Workshop on Networked Group Communication (NGC 2002), Boston, MA, October 2002.

A. Banchs, M. Radimirsch, X. Perez, "Expedited and Assured Forwarding Extension for IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN," Tenth IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2002), Miami, FL, May 2002.

A. Banchs, "User Fair Queuing: Fair Allocation of Bandwidth for Users", IEEE INFOCOM 2002, New York, June 2002.

A. Banchs and X. Perez, "Distributed Fair Queuing in IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN", IEEE ICC 2002, New York, April 2002.

S. Tartarelli and A. Banchs, "Random Early Marking: Improving the Performance of TCP in DiffServ Assured Forwarding", IEEE ICC 2002, New York, April 2002.

A. Banchs and X. Perez, "Providing Throughput Guarantees in IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN", IEEE WCNC 2002, Orlando, FL, March 2002.

A. Banchs and R. Denda, "A Scalable Share Differentiation Architecture for Elastic and Real-Time Traffic," Eighth IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2000), Pittsburgh, PA, June 2000.

A. Banchs, S. Tartarelli, F. Orlandi, S. Sato, K. Kobayashi, H. Pan, "Configuration of DiffServ routers for high-speed links", 2002 IEEE Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR 2002), Kobe, Japan, May 2002.

S. Sato, K. Kobayashi, H. Pan, S. Tartarelli and A. Banchs, "Configuration Rule and Performance Evaluation of DiffServ Parameters", Seventeenth International Teletraffic Congress (ITC17), Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, December 2001.

A. Banchs, O. Leon and S. Sallent, "The Olympic Service Model: Issues and Architecture", 2nd International Workshop on Quality of future Internet Services (QofIS 2001), Coimbra, Portugal, September 2001.

A. Banchs, X. Perez, M. Radimirsch and H. Stuettgen, "Service Differentiation Extensions for Elastic and Real-Time traffic in 802.11 Wireless LAN", 2001 IEEE Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR 2001), Dallas, Texas, May 2001.

A. Banchs, X. Perez, M. Radimirsch and S. Sallent, "Service Differentiation Extensions for IEEE 802.11", 11th IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN 2001), Boulder, Co, March 2001.

R. Denda, A. Banchs and W. Effelsberg, "The Fairness Challenge in Computer Networks", 1st International Workshop on Quality of future Internet Services (QofIS 2000), Berlin, Germany, September 2000.

B. Lange, A. Banchs, T. Dietz and M. Gabrysch, "Interactive Home Learning using Residential Broadband Networks", 2nd International Conference on New Learning Technologies (NLT’99), Berne, Switzerland, August 1999.

A. Banchs, M. Gabrysch, T. Dietz, B. Lange and H. Stuettgen, "Implementation of IP Multicast over ATM/xDSL Based Access Networks", GI (German Computer Society) Multicast Workshop’99, Braunschweig, Germany, May 1999.

A. Banchs, S. Sallent, "Control-Minislot First-Come First-Serve Protocol," IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT’98), Boston, MA, August 1998.

A. Banchs, W. Effelsberg, C. Tschudin and V. Turau, "Multicasting Multimedia Streams with Active Networks", 23rd IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN’98), Lowell, MA, October 1998.

National Conferences

P. Serrano, A. Banchs, "Configuración óptima de redes WLAN 802.11e EDCA cursando datos y tráfico VoIP", Jornadas de Ingeniería Telemática (Jitel), Málaga, September 2007. Best Paper award given by the company AT4 WIRELESS.

Book Chapters

J. Lessmann, P. Loureiro, J. Fitzpatrick, P. Serrano, A. Banchs, "Towards Carrier-Grade Quality in Heterogeneous Wireless Mesh Networks" in Wireless Multi-Access Environments and Quality of Service Provisioning: Solutions and Applications, Publisher: IGI Global. 2011. New Hershey PA.

A. Cuevas, R. Cuevas, M. Urueña, A. Banchs, D. Larrabeiti, "VoIP over WLAN Performance" in VoIP Handbook: Applications, Technologies, Reliability, and Security, Edited by Syed Ahson and Mohammad, Publisher: CRC Press, pp. 207-222. 2009. New York. ISBN: 1-42007-020-7.

A. Banchs, P. Serrano, "Analysis and Configuration of IEEE 802.11e" in Medium Access Control in Wireless Networks, Edited by Hongyi Wu and Yi Pan, Publisher: Nova Science Publishers, pp. 407-425. 2008. New York. ISBN: 1-60021-944-6.

C. J. Bernardos, I. Soto, A. Banchs, "Analysis and Configuration of IEEE 802.11e" in Medium Access Control in Wireless Networks, Edited by Hongyi Wu and Yi Pan, Publisher: Nova Science Publishers, pp. 235-254. 2008. New York. ISBN: 1-60021-944-6.

A. Banchs, P. Serrano, "Applications and Configuration of 802.11e Wireless LANs" in Progress in Wireless Communications Research, Edited by Alfred P. Martinhoff, Publisher: Nova Science Publishers, pp. 121-149. 2007. New York. ISBN: 1-60021-675-7.

Invited Papers and Presentations

A. Banchs, "QoS support over Heterogeneous Wireless Networks," Last Mile Wireless Workshop, Dublin, Ireland, August 2006.

A. Banchs, G. Iannello, P. Serrano, L. Vollero, "A CAPWAP Architecture for Dynamic Configuration of QoS MAC Parameters," 1st Workshop on multiMedia Applications over Wireless Networks (MediaWiN), Athens, Greece, April 2006.

A. Banchs, "The DAIDALOS Architecture for QoS over Heterogeneous Wireless Networks," Trends in Wireless Resource Management Workshop, Barcelona, Spain, November 2005.

A. Banchs, "Broadcast technologies and services in a mobile environment with QoS," Convergence of mobile and broadcast environments workshop, Heidelberg, Germany, October 2005.

A. Banchs, "Tutorial on xDSL-based Access Networks," invited presentation at the Fifth EUNICE Open European Summer School (EUNICE’99), Barcelona, September 1999.

Posters and Demonstrations

C. Vlachou, A. Banchs, J. Herzen, P. Thiran, "Performance Analysis of MAC for Power-Line Communications," ACM Sigmetrics (poster session), Austin, Texas, USA, June 2014. T. Melia, R. Aguiar, A. Banchs, P. Pacyna, "NIHO: Network Initiated Handovers for next generation All IP Networks," demonstration at IEEE INFOCOM 2006, Barcelona, Spain, June 2006. F. Raspall, C. Kuhmuench, A. Banchs, F. Pelizza and S. Sallent, "Study of packet dropping policies on layered video", Packet Video Workshop, Corea, May 2001. A. Banchs, M. Gabrysch, T. Dietz, B. Lange and H. Stuettgen, "IP Multicast Support in ADSL Networks", IEEE ATM Workshop’99, Japan, May 1999.