Team

Estela Carmona Cejudo

Head of Innovation & Senior Researcher - Software Networks Research Group

Contact estela.carmona@i2cat.net

Dr. Estela Carmona is an Innovation Manager and Senior Researcher with the Software Networks Department at the i2CAT Foundation, Barcelona, Spain. She received the B.S. degree in Communications Engineering from the University of Malaga, Malaga, Spain, in 2011; the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electronic Engineering from the University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom, in 2015 and 2021, respectively; and the MBA degree from the University of Warwick, United Kingdom, in 2025. Her research interests include telco-cloud architectures, edge/fog computing, and vehicular and industrial networks. She was the recipient of Rohde & Schwarz’s 2015 Best Wireless Communications Project and BAE Systems’ 2015 Best Master’s Degree Final Project. She has prior experience as an executive and as a development electronics engineer. She is currently an executive postgraduate degree candidate at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

Publications

Resource Allocation in Multicarrier NOMA Systems Based on Optimal Channel Gain Ratios

E. C. Cejudo, H. Zhu and J. Wang, "Resource Allocation in Multicarrier NOMA Systems Based on Optimal Channel Gain Ratios," in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 635-650, Jan. 2022 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9497653

Minimizing Active Nodes in MEC Environments: A Distributed Learning-Driven Framework for Application Placement

@article{TORRESPEREZ2025111008, title = {Minimizing active nodes in MEC environments: A distributed learning-driven framework for application placement}, journal = {Computer Networks}, volume = {257}, pages = {111008}, year = {2025}, issn = {1389-1286}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2024.111008}, url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389128624008405}, author = {Claudia Torres-Pérez and Estefanía Coronado and Cristina Cervelló-Pastor and Javier Palomares and Estela Carmona-Cejudo and Muhammad Shuaib Siddiqui}, keywords = {Application placement, Distributed deep reinforcement learning, MEC, Scalability}, }