Ramón J. Durán Barroso

Universidad de Valladolid | UVA · Department of Theory of Signal and Communications and Telematic Engineering

Software-defined networking (SDN) provides an efficient framework for managing passive optical networks (PONs) with equipment from different manufacturers, technologies, and standards. Thus, we recently proposed a robust and flexible SDN-OpenFlow agent to configure and manage 10 gigabit symmetric passive optical networks (XGS-PONs) to support Inter...

5G/6G networks offer high-capacity, low-latency and high-speed communications to new services associated with vertical industries like smart cities, automotive and energy sectors. To achieve this objective, new networking and computing paradigms such as Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) and Software Defined Ne...

Telecommunication operators are increasingly relying on Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) to support emerging 5G/6G services, which demand ultra-low latency and ultra-reliability. Employing NFV and MEC enable operators to deliver services through Service Function Chains (SFC) composed of Virtual Network Fun...

The deployment of multi-access edge computing (MEC) networks gives rise to the MEC placement problem, which deals with finding the right server locations to reduce the cost and guarantee network performance. Multiple papers have been presented to solve this problem, but they are usually oriented to urban areas where short distances and high-quality...

Space division multiplexing (SDM) and band division multiplexing (BDM) are considered promising technologies to increase the capacity of optical transport networks. The progressive shortage of available dark fibers and the immaturity of multicore and multimode fibers for multichannel transmission induce network operators to postpone the process of...

This paper describes the design and implementation of an OpenFlow software defined network (SDN) agent that manages and configures 10-gigabit-capable symmetric passive optical network (XGS-PON) architectures. Acting as an OpenFlow switch, the SDN agent communicates with an SDN controller using OpenFlow, while holding direct communication with the o...

Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) have emerged as promising technologies for providing low-latency and high-bandwidth services to mobile users through Service Function Chains (SFCs) consisting of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs). However, the efficient utilization of network resources and optimal placement...

SDN (Software Define Networking) and NFV (Network Function Virtualization) are the key enablers for 5G systems and also open many doors in the cloud-native application. Besides, it invites new challenges to the efficiency and scalability of resource management. This work aims to provide a cognitive framework for 5G resource and service orchestratio...

Space division multiplexing (SDM) technology and band division multiplexing (BDM) are potential candidates for the bandwidth extension of the existing optical transport networks. Contrary to the SDM technology, whose activation requires a huge CAPEX cost, BDM is viewed as a practical solution in the short or middle term. However, the complete upgra...

In Recent years, the development of biomedical imaging techniques, integrative sensors, and artificial intelligence has brought many benefits to the protection of health. We can collect, measure, and analyze vast volumes of health-related data using the technologies of computing and networking, leading to tremendous opportunities for the health and...

The papers in this special section focus on the topic of computational to edge computing artificial intelligence for ubiquitous Internet of Things systems.

Con la aparición de tecnologías disruptivas como Internet de las Cosas (IoT), Industria 4.0 o Realidad Virtual (VR), entre otras, cada vez hay más servicios y dispositivos con diferentes características que se interconectan mediante redes de comunicaciones y necesitan capacidades de computación y almacenamiento con las que, en principio, no cuentan...

Los nuevos servicios y aplicaciones disruptivas requieren la utilización de redes de comunicaciones de banda ancha. En el segmento de acceso, las redes de acceso ópticas pasivas (PON) se están consolidando como la mejor alternativa para este despliegue dado que las tecnologías de acceso tradicionales (cable coaxial, cobre) ya han dejado de ser capa...

Agents are understood by definition as entities that interact with their environment and also with other agents. Thus, when two or more agents are able to work together in order to solve a common problem, they form a multi-agent system (MAS). MAS are systems that integrate a set of agents that interact, communicate and coordinate to achieve the est...

Formal methods have been widely used to support software testing to guarantee correctness and reliability. For example, model checking technology attempts to ensure that the verification property of a specific formal model is satisfactory for discovering bugs or abnormal behavior from the perspective of temporal logic. However, because automatic ap...

With the development of the Internet of Things, it has been widely studied and deployed in industrial manufacturing, intelligent transportation, and healthcare systems. The time-series feature of the IoT makes the data density and the data dimension higher, where anomaly detection is important to ensure hardware and software security. However, the...

With the development of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Internet, new kinds of services based on IoT devices will benefit everyone. As a key step in achieving a complex business structure based on a massive number of IoT devices, establishing an effective service composition is extremely important. The emerging architecture of composition is r...

In recent years, with the development of software development, a large number of developers develop software by invoking API. With the increasing number of APIs, how to accurately recommend the APIs to developers has become a urgently necessary task. In this paper, we discover that there is a relationship between the user and the API, and use such...

Engineering profiles focused on next‐generation optical networks are gaining immense importance due to new emerging services and the amount of data expected in future network scenarios. In fact, not only are optical access networks leading to a major revolution in the network industry, but passive optical networks are the most widely deployed acces...

We propose, and experimentally demonstrate, an SDN (Software Defined Networking) new management solution for legacy GPONs (Gigabit Passive Optical Networks), which allows users to dynamically control their residential networks by means of a management application. In this way, users can customize the allocation of resources (and set constraints, if...

Future metro networks will connect many multiaccess edge computing resources (MEC) working in a coordinating fashion to provide users with cloud computing capabilities with very low latency. That highly distributed computing architecture has to be connected by a network that provides high bandwidth and flexibility. Elastic optical networks (EONs) a...

The integration of Software Defined Networking (SDN) technologies in Passive Optical Networks (PONs) would provide great advantages to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Network Operators, since they can optimize the network operation and reduce its complexity. However, some tasks regarding online service and network configuration strategies are...

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems, Broadnets 2020, which took place in Qingdao, China, in December 2020. The 13 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. The papers are thematically grouped as a...

Elastic Optical Networks (EONs) are a promising optical technology to deal with the ever-increasing traffic and the vast number of connected devices of the next generation of the Internet, associated to paradigms like the Internet of Things (IoT), the Tactile Internet or the Industry 4.0, to name just a few. In this kind of optical network, each op...

The industrial Internet of things (IIoT), a new computing mode in Industry 4.0, is deployed to connect IoT devices and use communication technology to respond to control commands and handle industrial data. IIoT is typically employed to improve the efficiency of computing and sensing and can be used in many scenarios, such as intelligent manufactur...

The evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT) is imposing many distinct challenges, particularly to guarantee both wide and global systems communication, and to ensure an optimal execution of services. To that end, IoT services must make the most out of both cloud and fog computing (turning into combined fog-cloud scenarios), which indeed requires...

Next generation of Internet of Things (IoT) services imposes stringent requirements to the future networks that current ones cannot fulfill. 5G is a technology born to give response to those requirements. However, the deployment of 5G is also accompanied by profound architectural changes in the network, including the introduction of technologies li...

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is considered to be one of the enabling technologies for 5G. NFV poses several challenges, like deciding the virtual network function (VNF) placement and chaining, and adding backup resources to guarantee the survivability of service chains. In this paper, we propose a genetic algorithm that jointly solves the...

5G technologies promise to bring new network and service capacities and are expected to introduce significant architectural and service deployment transformations. The Cloud-Radio Access Networks (C-RAN) architecture, enabled by the combination of Software Defined Networking (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Mobile Edge Computing (ME...

A real end-to-end SDN based GPON scenario to provide a fast, efficient and accurate QoS management is proposed. It is designed to support a novel network management model that permits residential users to control their bandwidth network resources

This paper overviews the approach of the Elastic Networks research network to address different issues of planning and control of Flex-Grid/SDM optical networks. Firstly, we present the Net2Plan open-source planning tool capabilities to model Flex-Grid/SDM networks; secondly a PCE-based Transport-SDN controller for packet over flex-grid optical net...

A genetic algorithm is proposed to map virtual network functions in computing resources over 5G networks with an optical backhauling system. The algorithm outperforms other proposals in terms of blocking ratio and active CPU cores utilization.

We developed the responsive environment AIM‐Mobile Learning Platform, which permits to assess students using smartphones and to design online educational packets. We carried out a qualitative and quantitative study in Higher Education subjects using the case study and the triangulation data methods. Results demonstrated that the environment promote...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is an extensive scientific discipline which enables computer systems to solve problems by emulating complex biological processes such as learning, reasoning and self-correction. This paper presents a comprehensive review of the application of AI techniques for improving performance of optical communication systems and n...

The combination of Learning Management Systems (LMS) with smartphones is gaining importance in Higher Education studies. Therefore, we have designed a responsive virtual environment, AIM-Mobile Learning Platform, focus on integrating smartphones in class. It permits teachers to send real time questions and learning packets with multimedia resources...

In this paper, a proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller integrated with a neural network (NN) is proposed to ensure quality of service (QoS) bandwidth requirements in passive optical networks (PONs). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time an approach that implements a NN to tune a PID to deal with QoS in PONs is used. In co...

Network utility maximization (NUM) models have been successfully applied to address multiple resource-allocation problems in communication networks. This paper explores, for the first time to our knowledge, their application to modeling the bandwidth-allocation problem in passive optical networks (PONs) and long-reach PONs. Using the NUM model, we...