Jorge Baranda

Senior Researcher

Division:	Communication Networks
Category:	Research
Phone:	+34 93 645 29 00 Ext: 2171
Fax:	+34 93 645 29 01
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Jorge Baranda (Barcelona,1984) received his MSc. degree in Telecommunications Engineering and his MSc. in Science of Information and Communication Technologies (MINT) from the ETSETB-Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in July 2008.
His Master Thesis consisted of the development of a system to detect and locate people in images and videos using Histogram of Oriented Gradients. This work was developed within the Video Processing and Analysis group (VPA) of Philips Research at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven (The Netherlands). In October 2007, he received the “Leonardo da Vinci” grant from the Universitat Ramón Llull to help in the development of his Master Thesis.

In November 2009 he joined the CTTC as a research engineer. Prior to this, he worked at GMV in the Information Security department. During his time in CTTC, he has participated in European-funded projects (5G-Transformer, 5G-Crosshaul, SANSA, PHYDYAS), national funded projects (5G-REFINE, 5GNORM, SYMBIOSIS, DUAL-CR, DUAL-CR-RD) and industrial-funded projects. The development of such projects has allowed him to gain experience in the research and development of standardized wireless communication systems (WiMAX, LTE), mobile and transport networks and its orchestration and management using SDN and NFV techniques. He has also participated in the development of the first prototype of a Visible Light Communication transceiver based on the IEEE 802.15.7 standard. He is also involved in the preparation of research proposals for competitive programs as well as design, develop, maintain and expand experimental facilities to support his research.

His main research interests are focused on different aspects of networking: SDN, NFV and how these trends can complement or be integrated with former distributed networking concepts like efficient routing to develop next-generation mobile networks while integrating vertical industries to the telco ecosystem. He is also interested in radio wireless communication systems, mobile and transport networks, and signal and image processing.

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7764-5662

Journals & magazines

J. Baranda, J. Mangues, R. Martínez, L. Vettori, K. Antevski, C. J. Bernardos, X. Li, Realising the Network Service Federation vision , IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, Future Networks Initiative Special Issue on 5G Technologies and Applications, June 2020.

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M. Malinverno, J. Mangues, C. Casetti, C.F. Chiasserini, M. Requena, J. Baranda, An Edge-based Framework for Enhanced Road Safety of Connected Cars , IEEE Access, March 2020, Vol. 8, pp. 58018-58031, March 2020.

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J. Mangues, J. Baranda, G. Landi, J. Núñez, R. Casellas, S. Bilal Chundrigar, A. de la Oliva, A. Mourad, S. T. Talat, C. F. Chiasserini, J. X. Salvat, Experimental framework and evaluation of the 5G-Crosshaul Control Infrastructure , Elsevier Computer Standards & Interfaces, January 2019.

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X. Artiga, A. I. Pérez-Neira, J. Baranda, E. Lagunas, S. Chatzinotas, R. Zetik, P. Gorski, K. Ntougias, D. Pérez, G. Ziaragkas, Shared Access Satellite-Terrestrial Reconfigurable Backhaul Network enabled by Smart Antennas at mm-wave Band , IEEE Network Magazine, vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 46-53, September 2018.

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J. Baranda, J. Mangues, I. Pascual, J. Núñez, J. de la Cruz, R. Casellas, R. Vilalta, J. Xavier Salvat, C. Turyagenda, Orchestration of end-to-end network services in the 5G-Crosshaul multi-domain multi-technology transport network , IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol.56, Issue 7, pp.184-191, July 2018.

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G. Ziaragkas, G. Poziopoulou, J. Núñez, J. Baranda, C. Tsinos, S. Maleki, S. Krishna, M. Alodeh, S. Chatzinotas, SANSA – Hybrid Terrestrial-Satellite Backhaul Network: Scenarios, Use cases, KPIs, Architecture, Network and Physical Layer Techniques , International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking , May 2017.

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N. Patriciello, J. Núñez, J. Baranda, M. Casoni, J. Mangues, TCP Performance Evaluation over Backpressure-based Routing Strategies for Wireless Mesh Backhaul in LTE Networks , Ad Hoc Networks, 2017, Vol. 60, pp. 40-51, May 2017.

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F. Cavaliere, P. Iovanna, J. Mangues, J. Baranda, J. Núñez, K. Lin, H. Chang, P. Chanclou, P. Farkas, J. Gomes, L. Cominardi, A. Mourad, A. de La Oliva, J. Alberto Hernández, D. Larrabeiti, A. Di Giglio, A. Paolicelli, P. Ödling, Towards a unified fronthaul-backhaul data plane for 5G, The 5G-Crosshaul project approach , Elsevier Computer Standards & Interfaces, Vol. 51, pp. 56-62, March 2017, DOI: 10.1016/j.csi.2016.11.005.

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J. Núñez, J. Baranda, J. Mangues, A self-organized backpressure routing scheme for dynamic small cell deployments , Ad Hoc Networks, Vol. 25 , No. A, pp. 130-140, February 2015.

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J. Núñez, J. Baranda, J. Mangues, Experimental evaluation of self-organized backpressure routing in a wireless mesh backhaul of small cells , Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, Vol. 24 Part B, No. 0, pp. 103-114, January 2015.

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Journals & magazines

C. George-Gavrincea, J. Baranda, P. Henarejos, Rapid Prototyping of Standard-Compliant Visible Light Communications System , IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 52, No. 7, pp. 80-87, July 2014.

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J. Núñez, J. Mangues, J. Baranda, Anycast Backpressure Routing: Scalable mobile backhaul for dense small cell deployments , IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 17, pp. 2316 - 2319 , December 2013.

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Int'l conferences

J. Baranda, J. Mangues, L. Vettori, R. Martínez, G. Avino, C. F. Chiasserini, C. Puligheddu, C. Casetti, J. Brenes, G. Landi, K. Kondepu, F. Paolucci, S. Fichera, L. Valcarenghi, Arbitrating Network Services in 5G Networks for Automotive Vertical Industry , in Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM'20), 6-9 July 2020, virtual event.

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J. Baranda, J. Mangues, L. Vettori, R. Martínez, K. Antevski, L. Girletti, C.J. Bernardos, K. Tomakh, D. Kucherenko, G. Landi, J. Brenes, X. Li, X. Costa-Pérez, F. Ubaldi, G. Imbarlina, M. Gharbaoui, NFV Service Federation: enabling Multi-Provider eHealth Emergency Services , in Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM'20), 6-9 July 2020, Toronto (Canada).

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J. Baranda, J. Mangues, R. Martínez, L. Vettori, K. Antevski, C. J. Bernardos, X. Li, 5G-TRANSFORMER meets Network Service Federation: design, implementation and evaluation , in Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft'20), 29-3 July 2020, Ghent (Belgium).

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K. Antevski, J. Martín Pérez, A. García-Saavedra, C. J. Bernardos, X. Li, J. Baranda, J. Mangues, R. Martínez, L. Vettori, A Q-learning strategy for federation of 5G services , in Proccedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'20), 7-11 June 2020, virtual event.

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J. Baranda, L. Vettori, R. Martínez, J. Mangues, A Mobile Transport Platform Interconnecting VNFs over a Multi-Domain Optical/Wireless Network: Design and Implementation , in Proceedings of the 24TH International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modelling (ONDM'20), 14-18 May 2020, Castelldefels (Spain).

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J. Baranda, G. Avino, J. Mangues, L. Vettori, R. Martínez, C. F. Chiasserini, C. Casetti, P. Bande, M. Giordanino, M. Zanzola, Automated deployment and scaling of automotive safety services in 5G-Transformer , in Proceedings of the 5th IEEE Conference on Network Functions Virtualization and Software Defined Networking (IEEE NFV-SDN 2019), 12-14 November 2019, Dallas, Texas (USA) .

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J. Mangues, J. Baranda, M. Requena, M. Payaro, N. Bartzoudis, M. Navarro, D. Gregoratti, Some thoughts on current and future experimentation needs , in Proceedings of the Global Experimentation for Future Internet (GEFI) workshop, in conjuction with IEEE CloudNet 2019, 4-6 November 2019, Coimbra (Portugal)

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N. Patriciello, J. Núñez, J. Baranda, M. Casoni, J. Mangues, Towards Backpressure Routing in Wireless Mesh Backhauls for Dense LTE Deployments , in Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2019), 21-23 October 2019, Barcelona (Spain).

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Int'l conferences

J. Baranda, J. Mangues, L. Vettori, R. Martínez, G. Landi, K. Antevski, Demo: Composing Services in 5G-TRANSFORMER , in Proceedings of The Twentieth ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing, 2-5 July 2019. Catania (Italy).

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J. Mangues, J. Baranda, I. Pascual, R. Martínez, L. Vettori, G. Landi, A. Zurita, D. Salama, K. Antevski, J. Martín-Pérez, D. Andrushko, K. Tomakh, B. Martini, X. Li, J. X. Salvat, 5G-TRANSFORMER Service Orchestrator: Design Implementation and Evaluation , in Proceedings of the 28th edition of the European Conference on Networks and Communications (EUCNC'19), 18-21 June 2019, Valencia (Spain).

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L. Valcarenghi, B. Martini, J. Mangues, I. Pascual, R. Martínez, J. Baranda, K. Antevski, C.J. Bernardós, A. Ksentini, X. Li, G. Landi, M. Capitani, C.F. Chiasserini, K. Tomakh, D. Andrushko, F. Malandrino, A Framework for Orchestration and Federation of 5G Services in a Multi-Domain Scenario , In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Experimentation and Measurements in 5G (EM-5G 2018) in conjunction with ACM CONEXT’18 Conference, 4-7 December 2018, Heraklion/Crete (Greece).

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J. Baranda, I. Pascual, M. Requena, J. Mangues, Deploying a containerized ns-3/LENA-based LTE mobile Network Service through the 5G-TRANSFORMER platform , in Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Conference on Network Functions Virtualization and Software Defined Networking (IEEE NFV-SDN 2018), 27-29 November 2018, Verona (Italy).

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J. Baranda, I. Pascual, J. Mangues, J. Núñez, Wireless Interface Agent for SDN mmWave Multi-hop Networks: Design and Experimental Evaluation , in Proceedings of 2nd ACM Workshop on Millimeter Wave Networks and Sensing Systems, (mmNets 2018), 29 October 2018, New Delhi (India).

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K. Antevski, J.Martín-Pérez, N. Molner, C.F.Chiasserini, F.Malandrino, P. Frangoudis, A. Ksentini, X. Li, J.X.Salvat, R. Martínez, I. Pascual, J. Mangues, J. Baranda, B. Martini, M. Gharbaoui, Resource Orchestration of 5G Transport Networks for Vertical Industries , in Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 9-12 September 2018, Bologna (Italy)

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J. Baranda, J. Núñez, I. Pascual, J. Mangues, A. Mayoral, R. Casellas, R. Vilalta, R. Martínez, R. Muñoz, J. X. Salvat, A. García-Saavedra, X. Li, J. Kocur, Resource Management in a Hierarchically Controlled Multi-domain Wireless/Optical Integrated Fronthaul and Backhaul Network , IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks, IEEE NFV-SDN, 6-8 November 2017, Berlin, Germany, November 2017.

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J. Mangues, J. Núñez, R. Casellas, A. Mayoral, J. Baranda, J. Xavier Salvat, A. García-Saavedra, R. Vilalta, I. Pascual, X. Li, R. Martínez, R. Muñoz, Experimental Evaluation of Hierarchical Control over Multi-Domain Wireless/Optical Networks , in Proceedings of the 26th edition of European Conference on Networks and Communications (EUCNC'17), 12-15 June 2017, Oulu (Finland).

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J. Baranda, J. Núñez, J. Mangues, N. Patriciello, Evaluation of Hybrid Terrestrial-satellite Suburban Wireless Mesh Backhauls for LTE Networks , in Proceedings of the 26th edition of European Conference on Networks and Communications (EUCNC'17), 12-15 June 2017, Oulu (Finland).

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X. Artiga, J. Núñez, J. Baranda, A. I. Pérez-Neira, Self-Organizing Hybrid Terrestrial-Satellite Backhaul Network for Enhanced Throughput and Latency , in Proceedings of the 26th edition of European Conference on Networks and Communications (EUCNC’17), 12-15 June 2017, Oulu (Finland) .

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Int'l conferences

T. Deiss, J. Baranda, L. Cominardi, L. Miguel Contreras, J. Gomes, S. González, P. Iovanna, J. Mangues, N. Molner, J. Núñez, A. de la Oliva, S. Stracca, Dataplane Measurements on a Fronthaul (FH) and Backhaul (BH) integrated network , In the 5th International Workshop on Cloud Technologies and Energy Efficiency in Mobile Communication Networks (CLEEN 2017), June 2017.

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J. Baranda, M. Miozzo, P. Dini, J. Núñez, J. Mangues, Backhaul Routing and Base Station Sleep Mode Engagement in Energy Harvesting Cellular Networks , in Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWIM 2016), 13-17 November 2016, Malta.

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N. Patriciello, C. Augusto Grazia, J. Núñez, J. Baranda, J. Mangues, M. Casoni, Performance Evaluation of Backpressure Routing in Integrated Satellite-terrestrial Backhaul for PPDR Networks , in Proceedings of 3rd Workshop on Emergency Networks for Public Protection and Disaster Relief (EN4PPDR 2016), in conjunction with IEEE WiMob 2016, New York, USA, October 17-19, 2016, October 2016.

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J. Núñez, J. Baranda, I. Pascual, J. Mangues, WiseHAUL: An SDN-empowered Wireless Small Cell Backhaul testbed , in Proceedings of the 17 IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), 21-24 June 2016, Coimbra, Portugal.

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L. Cominardi, J. Baranda, D. Larrabeiti, F. Cavaliere, P. Chanclou, J. Gomes, A. di Giglio, P. Ödling, H. Chang, 5G-Crosshaul: Towards a Unified Data-Plane for 5G Transport Networks , in Proceedings of the 25th European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC 2016), June 27-30, 2016,Athens (Greece).

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R. Vilalta, A. Mayoral, J. Baranda, J. Núñez, R. Casellas, R. Martínez, J. Mangues, R. Muñoz, Hierarchical SDN Orchestration of Wireless and Optical Networks with E2E Provisioning and Recovery for Future 5G Networks , in Proceedings of the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 20-24 March 2016, Anaheim, California (USA).

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J. Núñez, J. Baranda, J. Mangues, A Service-based model for the Hybrid Software Defined Wireless Mesh Backhaul of Small Cells , in Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Management of SDN and NFV Systems (ManSDN/NFV), in conjunction with 11th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM15), 09-13 November 2015, Barcelona (Spain).

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J. Baranda, J. Núñez, J. Mangues, BP-MR: Backpressure Routing for the Heterogeneous Multi-Radio Backhaul of Small Cells , in Proceedings of the 8th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC 2015), 5-7 October 2015, Munich (Germany).

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R. Muñoz, R. Vilalta, C. Verikoukis, J. Mangues, J. Alonso-Zarate, A. Georgiadis, M. Payaro, R. Casellas, R. Martínez, J. Serra, D. Pubill, J. Núñez, J. Baranda, F. Vázquez-Gallego, A. I. Pérez-Neira, The CTTC 5G end-to-end experimental platform integrating IoT, SDN, and distributed cloud , in Proceedings of Wireless World Research Forum Meeting 35 (WWRF), 14-16 October 2015, Copenhagen (Denmark).

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J. Baranda, J. Núñez, J. Mangues, Applying backpressure to balance resource usage in software-defined wireless backhauls , In Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Next Generation Backhaul/Fronthaul Networks (BackNets 2015), ?In conjunction with IEEE ICC 2015, 8-12 June 2015, London (UK).

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Int'l conferences

J. Núñez, J. Baranda, J. Mangues, Backpressure Routing for the Backhaul in Sparse Small Cell Deployments , in Proceedings of 32nd IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), 6-8 December 2013, San Diego, California (USA).

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J. Baranda, P. Henarejos, C. George-Gavrincea, An SDR Implementation of a Visible Light Communication System Based on the IEEE 802.15.7 Standard , in Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT 2013). 6-8 May 2013, Casablanca (Morocco).

J. Baranda, P. Henarejos, Y. Grunenberger, M. Nájar, Prototyping with SDR: a quick way to play with next-gen communications systems , In proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS 2011). 6-9 November 2011, Aachen (Germany).

J. Baranda, J. Jeanne, V. Braspenning, R, Efficiency improvement of human body detection with histograms of oriented gradients , in Proceedings of Second ACM/IEEE International Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC) 7-11 September 2008, Stanford University, California (USA).

CTTC in the media

J. Baranda, P. Henarejos, C. George-Gavrincea, Llums que no són només llums. Arriba la Comunicació per llum visible , Revista Telecos.Cat, Col·legi oficial/Associació Catalana d'Enginyers de Telecomunicacions (COETC/ACET) nº 59, pp. 20-23, Juny 2013.

SGR-1195 - SGR – Suport als Grups de Recerca, “Xarxes de Comunicacions”

2017 SGR 1195

5Growth - 5G-enabled Growth in Vertical Industries

856709

5G-REFINE - Resource EfFIcient 5G NEtworks

TEC2017-88373-R

5G-TRANSFORMER - 5G Mobile Transport Platform for Verticals

761536

5GNORM - 5G Network Orchestration and Management

TEC2014-60491-R

DUAL-CR - Radio y red cognitivas mediante el uso dual de IEEE 802.11h en despliegues de coalición

5G-CROSSHAUL - The 5G Integrated fronthaul/backhaul

H2020-671598

SANSA - Shared Access Terrestrial-Satellite Backhaul Network enabled by Smart Antennas

Grant number 645047

SILenCe - Software defIned Light Communication System

AT4WIRELESS - Development of TDD-LTE Physical Layer

SYMBIOSIS - System-level studY for coping with MoBIle data grOwth in evolved cellular networkS and future Internet environmentS

PHYDYAS - PHYsical layer for DYnamic AccesS and cognitive radio

Project contract/code: 211887