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AUTHORS Oriol Sallent is a Professor at
the Universitat Politècnica de
Ramon Ferrús received the
degrees of Telecommunications Catalunya (UPC) in Barcelona.
Engineering (B.S. plus M.S.) and He has participated in a wide
Ph.D. from the Universitat range of European and national
Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), projects, with diverse
Barcelona, Spain, in 1996 and responsibilities as Principal
2000, respectively. He is Investigator, Coordinator and
currently a tenured Associate Workpackage Leader. He regularly serves as a
consultant for a number of private companies. He
Professor with the Department
of Signal Theory and Communications at UPC. His has been involved in the organization of many
research interests include system design, functional different scientific activities, such as Conferences,
architectures, protocols, resource optimization and Workshops, Special Issues in renowed international
network and service management in wireless journals, etc. He has contributed to standardization
communications. He has participated in 10+ bodies such as 3GPP, IEEE and ETSI. He is co-author
research projects within the 6th, 7th and H2020 of 13 books and has published 250+ papers, mostly
Framework Programmes of the European in high-impact IEEE journals and renowed
Commission, taking the responsibility of WP leader international conferences. His research interests
include 5G RAN (Radio Access Network) planning
in H2020 VITAL and FP7 ISITEP projects. He has
also participated in numerous national research and management, artificial intelligence-based radio
projects and technology transfer projects for public resource management, virtualization of wireless
and private companies. He has participated in ETSI networks, cognitive management in cognitive radio
standardisation activities. He is co-author of one networks and dynamic spectrum access and
book on mobile and one book on mobile broadband management among others.
public safety communications. He has co-authored Irene Vilà received her B.E.
over 120 papers mostly in IEEE journals and degree in Telecommunication
conferences, with a h-index of 23 in Google Scholar. Systems Engineering and her M.E.
degree in Telecommunication
Jordi Pérez-Romero. is a Engineering from the Universitat
professor in the Dept. of Signal
Theory and Communications of Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC),
the Universitat Politècnica de Barcelona, in 2015 and 2017,
Catalunya (UPC) in Barcelona, respectively. In 2018, she joined
Spain, where he received a the Mobile Communication
degree in telecommunications Research Group (GRCM) of the Department of
engineering in 1997 and a Ph.D. Signal Theory and Communications (TSC) at UPC
degree in 2001. He has been working in the field of where she is currently a PhD student, supported
wireless communication systems, with a particular with an FI AGAUR grant by the Government of
focus on radio resource management, cognitive Catalunya. Her current research interests include
Radio Access Network (RAN) Slicing, network
radio networks and network optimization. He has
been involved in different European projects with virtualization and the application of artificial
different responsibilities, such as researcher, work intelligence and, particularly, machine learning to
package leader, and Project Lead, has participated radio resource management.
in different projects for private companies and has Ramón Agustí received a
contributed to the 3GPP and ETSI standardization degree of Engineer of
bodies. He has published more than 250 papers in Telecommunications from the
international journals and conferences, three books Universidad Politécnica de
and has contributed to seven book chapters. He has Madrid, Spain, in 1973, and a
an h-index of 31 in Google Scholar. He serves as an Ph.D. degree from the
Associate Editor for IEEE Vehicular Technology Universitat Politècnica de
Magazine and EURASIP Journal on Wireless Catalunya (UPC), Spain, 1978.
Communications Networks. He became Full Professor of the
Department of Signal Theory and Communications
(UPC) in 1987. After graduation he was working in
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