CTTC, as member of EPIC, celebrates the Day of Photonics on 22 October 2020, promoting and organizing a virtual event with the support of EPIC and the H2020 PASSION project: the “PASSION Photonics Virtual Coffee.” A virtual coffee among the project partners to celebrate our passion for photonics. On 21 October 1983, the General Conference [...]

The CTTC has been shortlisted for the Educational Project of the Year Award given by the Satcoms Innovation Group Awards. This shortlist has been curated thoughtfully, drawing attention to numerous companies, institutions and individuals who have made a real and tangible difference in the satcoms industry throughout 2020. Our category  “Educational Project of the Year” [...]

Dr. Ricard Vilalta, Senior Researcher at CTTC, presented a new demonstration of a novel prototype for a cloud-native SDN Controller at IEEE NetSoft (29 June-3 July 2020). Due to COVID19, the conference was virtual, but this did not affect a huge number of participants and it also provided a high level of scientific discussions. Current [...]

Jorge Baranda, Senior Researcher at COMNET-CTTC division, is presenting two demonstrations in Demo Session 3 of IEEE INFOCOM2020 conference, a top ranked conference on networking in the research community. Both demonstrations show advanced concepts related with Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN) and applied to vertical industries, namely, eHealth and automotive. On [...]

Dr. Christos Verikoukis will serve as a TPC Vice Co-Chair of the IEEE ComSoc flagship Global Communications Conference (Globecom) 2022 conference that will be held in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil from 4th to 8th of December 2022. GLOBECOM is one of the IEEE ComSoc´s two flagship conferences dedicated to driving innovation in nearly every aspect [...]

In the context of this PhD Thesis defense, Hoang Duy Trinh presents his work realized  at CTTC. Abstract: This thesis collects the research works I pursued as Ph.D. candidate at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC). Most of the work has been accomplished at the Mobile Network Department Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC). [...]

Dr. Hatim Chergui and Dr. Christos Verikoukis researchers at SMARTECH-CTTC receive a Best Paper Award for their paper “OPEX-Limited 5G RAN Slicing: an Over-Dataset Constrained Deep Learning Approach”in the prestigious flagship IEEE ComSoc ICC 2020 conference. The paper investigates the concept of OPEXlimited resource provisioning as a key component in fifth generation (5G) radio access [...]

In the context of this PhD Thesis defense, Nicola Piovesan presents his work realized  at CTTC. Abstract: During the last decades, mobile network operators have witnessed an exponential increase in the traffic demand, mainly due to the high request of services from a huge amount of users. The trend is of a further increase in [...]