Research Director (R4), Division Manager, Head of Department
Division: | Communication Networks |
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Category: | Research |
Phone: | +34 93 645 29 00 Ext: 2129 |
Fax: | +34 93 645 29 01 |
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Raul Muñoz is graduated in telecommunications engineering in 2001 and received a Ph.D. degree in telecommunications in 2005, both from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain. After working as undergraduate researcher at Centro Studi e Laboratori Telecomunicazioni (CSELT) (Turin, Italy) in 2000, where he developed his engineering degree final project, he worked as Assistant Professor at the UPC, giving the course of optical communications lab in the telecommunications engineering degree In 2001. In 2002, he joined the Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC). Currently, he is Senior Researcher (since February 2007), Head of the Optical Networks and Systems (ONS) Department (since April 2013), and Manager of the Communication Networks Division (since April 2013). The Optical Networks and Systems (ONS) department is composed of 8 permanent Senior Researchers and several Research Assistants associated to research projects, reaching a team around 15 people. He gives support to the writing of the CTTC Strategic & Functional Plan for the division and coordinates the writing for the ONS department. He also gives support to the recruiting processes of the division, serving as Secretary for all evaluation committees. Previously, He was the Coordinator of the Optical Networking Area (2005-2013), leading the creation of the new research group, and of the ADRENALINE testbed© (2002-2009), leading its design and development from scratch. He was also giving support to the CTTC direction in the management of European proposals and was the CTTC representative at the Board of the 5G Infrastructure Association (5GIA) (https://5g-ia.eu), the Steering Board of the Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) (https://www.wwrf.ch/), and the Networld2020 European Technology Platform (ETP) (https://www.networld2020.eu/) form January 2015 to September 2017. During this period, he was involved in different activities and groups that generated several white papers and positioning papers on 5G in Europe.
Since 2000, he has participated in over 50 R&D projects funded by the European Commission’s Framework Programmes (H2020, FP7, FP6, FP5, CELTIC and ITEA) and the Spanish National research programmes (Retos Investigación I+D+i, Proyectos de Investigación Fundamental no orientada, Proyectos I+D, Redes Temáticas, CENIT, PROFIT). In particular, it is worth highlighting the participation in several H2020 5GPPP projects dealing with 5G infrastructures (packet/optical transport and distributed cloud/edge computing) and services (NFV network services and network slicing for verticals) since 2014 such as INSPIRE-5G+, 5GCroCo (Barcelona Trial coordinator), blueSPACE (WP leader), or 5GTANGO. He has been the Principal Investigator from CTTC of seven European projects (H2020 INSPIRE-5Gplus and blueSPACE, FP7 IDEALIST, STRONGEST, and BONE, FP6 NOBEL2 and NOBEL). He has been the Project Coordinator of five Spanish Proyectos I+D/Retos: AURORAS (RTI2018-099178-B-I00), DESTELLO (TEC2015-69256-R), FARO (TEC2012-38119), DORADO (TEC2009-07995) and RESPLANDOR (TEC2006-12910/TCM); and one International Complementary Action (ACI) with the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology – NICT- from Japan (GAUDI project, PCI2006-A7-0715)). He has also been the Project Coordinator of two European projects, the coordinated EU-Japan STRAUSS project (608528) within FP7, and the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (MSCA-ITN) ONFIRE project (765275) within the H2020 framework programme. He has also participated and/or led several research projects with the industry (KDDI Research, Telefónica I+D, etc).
He has served as General Chair (ONDM2020 and WWRF39), as Technical Programme Committee (TPC) Chair (ONDM2019, ECOC 2015, and NOC 2012), and as Technical Track Chair (IEEE WFIoT 2021, EUCNC 2014) in major conferences. He has also participated in the organization of industry panels, and workshops (EUCNC 2015, EUCNC 2017, ONDM2019, ONDM2020). He has been TPC member of various networking conferences (ECOC, ICC, GLOBECOM, IPOP, ONDM, EUCNC and ECOC), member of the ONDM steering board (2019-), as well as reviewer of top-leading journals and magazines in the field such as IEEE/OSA journal of Lightwave Technologies (JLT), IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking (JOCN), IEEE Communications magazine, and IEEE Network Magazine. He also served as Associate/Guest editor for the JLT ECOC2015 special issue, JOCN ONDM2020 special issue and Springer Photonic Network Communications Journal ONDM2019 special issue. He has served as evaluator for the National research agencies of Spain (ANEP, Comisiones TEC-TCM), and Luxemburg (FNR).
His research interests include control and service management architectures (SDN, NFV, MEC) for future future optical networking and communications. He has supervised 2 PhD thesis, and is currently supervising 3 PhD thesis. He has published 85 JCR journal papers (66 in Q1), 275 international conference papers (including 40 invited papers in prestigious conferences such us OFC, ECOC, ONDM, OECC/PSC, IEEE Photonics summer topicals meeting series, ICTON), and three patents in this field. The total number of citations is 4207, with a H-index of 34. (Source: Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pB5RinkAAAAJ&hl). He is IEEE Senior Member since 2012, and member of the IEEE communications society and Photonics society.
ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4651-4499
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820466
GA 957403
TeraFlow - TeraFlow – Secured autonomic traffic management for a Tera of SDN flows
101015857
Go2Edge - Engineering Future Edge Computing Networks, Systems and Services
SGR-1195 - SGR – Suport als Grups de Recerca, “Xarxes de Comunicacions”
2017 SGR 1195
INSPIRE-5Gplus - INSPIRE-5Gplus INtelligent Security and Pervasive tRust for 5G and Beyond
871808
RTI2018-099178-B-I00
5GCroCo - 5G Cross-border Control
5GPPP Phase III Project - Contract: H2020-825050
5GCAR - Fifth Generation Communication Automotive Research and innovation
761510
H2020-ICT-2017-780326
ONFIRE - Future Optical Networks for Innovation, Research and Experimentation
H2020-MSCA-ITN-2017-765275
H2020-ICT-07-2017-762055
761727
761493
TEC2015-71932-REDT
TEC2015-69256-R
5G-CROSSHAUL - The 5G Integrated fronthaul/backhaul
H2020-671598
619712
TEC2012-38119
608528
SILVIA - Intelligent Services for Advanced Internet Validation – SILVIA
PAIS - Advanced Integrated Service Platform
PAIS (Plataforma Avançada Integrada de Serveis)
100GET.es - 100Gbit/s Carrier-Grade Ethernet Transport Technologies
Project Contract/Code: TSI-020400-2008-170
RT-Multilayer - Redes Multinivel: IP sobre Redes de Transporte
Project contract/code: TEC2006-27651-E
Project contract/code: PCI2006-A7-0715
BONE - Building the Future Optical Network in Europe: The e-Photon/ONe Network
Project contract/code: FP7-ICT-FP7-216863
Project contract/code: FIT-330220-2007-43
NetCat - Intelligent optical network for advanced services in Catalonia
RESPLANDOR - Intelligent OTN with dynamically reconfigurable transparent channel switching
Project contract/code: TEC2006-12910/TCM
NOBEL 2 - Next Generation Optical Networks for Broadband European Leadership Phase 2
Project contract/code: 27305
NOBEL - Next Generation Optical Networks for Broadband European Leadership
e-Photon/ONe+ - Optical networking R&D in Europe
Project contract/code: FP6-IST-027497
COMBO - COnvergence of fixed and Mobile BrOadband access/aggregation networks
317762
Project contract/code: 317999
OFELIA - OpenFlow in Europe: Linking Infrastructure and Applications
Contract number: 258365