Team

Miguel Catalan

Deputy Software Defined Wireless Networks Research Line Manager & Senior Researcher

Contact miguel.catalan@i2cat.net
Miguel Catalan

Dr. Miguel Catalan-Cid és Subdirector de la línia de recerca en Xarxes Sense Fil Definides per Software i Investigador Sènior a l’Àrea de Recerca d’Internet Mòbil d’i2CAT a Barcelona.

Treballa en tecnologies 5G i post-5G, centrant-se en arquitectura de xarxes, optimització de protocols i automatització intel·ligent. Té més de 15 anys d’experiència i ha participat en diversos projectes europeus i espanyols com a Investigador Principal, Cap de Paquet de Treball i Líder Tècnic.

Té experiència en Wi-Fi i sistemes cel·lulars, disseny de protocols, optimització i programació. És inventor d’una patent per millorar la qualitat de vídeo en entorns densos i ha contribuït a Neutroon, un spin-off d’i2CAT de xarxes privades 5G.

Doctor (2016) i màster (2008) per la UPC, interessat en O-RAN i optimitzacions basades en IA.

Publications

COSMO: O-RAN-Based Service Management and Orchestration for Cross-Technology Multi-Tenant Radio Access Networks

Miguel Catalan-Cid, Joan Josep Aleixendri, Jorge Pueyo, Pau Tomas, and Daniel Camps-Mur, “COSMO: O-RAN-Based Service Management and Orchestration for Cross-Technology Multi-Tenant Radio Access Networks,” accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2026

NetXRate: Network-Assisted Rate Recommendation for XR Service Optimization

A. Lopez Garcia, A. A. AbdelNabi, M. Catalan-Cid, M. Montagud, C. Sarathchandra, and D. Camps-Mur, “NetXRate: Network-assisted rate recommendation for XR service optimization,” IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, 2026.

Energy-Efficient CPU Resource Management in DPDK-Based UPFs: Experimental Insights and Strategies

M. Fuentes-Gonzales, M. Catalan-Cid and D. Camps-Mur, "Energy-Efficient CPU Resource Management in DPDK-Based UPFs: Experimental Insights and Strategies," in IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, vol. 7, pp. 4731-4746, 2026, doi: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2026.3690785.

Demo: BeGREEN Intelligence Plane for AI-driven Energy Efficient O-RAN management

M. Catalan-Cid, D. Reiss, G. Castellanos and J. Armstrong, "Demo: BeGREEN Intelligence Plane for AI-driven Energy Efficient O-RAN management," IEEE INFOCOM 2025 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS), London, United Kingdom, 2025, pp. 1-2, doi: 10.1109/INFOCOMWKSHPS65812.2025.11152833.

Policy-Guided ML for Energy Savings: Cell On/Off Switching under Operator QoS Constraints in Real 5G Networks

D. Reiss, M. Catalan-Cid, D. Camps-Mur and O. Sallent, "Policy-Guided ML for Energy Savings: Cell On/Off Switching under Operator QoS Constraints in Real 5G Networks," 2025 International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM), Barcelona, Spain, 2025, pp. 743-746, doi: 10.1109/MSWiM67937.2025.11308878.