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

Book Chapters

A. Banchs, P. Serrano, "Configuration Strategies for IEEE 802.11e Wireless LANs", chapter of the book "Medium Access Control in Wireless Networks", Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

A. Cuevas, R. Cuevas, A. Banchs, M. Urueña, and D. Larrabeiti, "VoIP over WLAN Performance", chapter of the book "VoIP Handbook: Applications, Technologies, Reliability, and Security", CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group.

Journal Publications

A. Banchs, L. Lenzini, I. Stavrakakis, "Special Section on Wireless Networking [Guest Editorial]," Computer Communications, to appear.

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, to appear.

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.

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. 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.

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.

Selected Conference Publications

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

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

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.

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

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 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, 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 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.

Other International Conferences

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.

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.

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, 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. 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.

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, 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, 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.

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

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.