Team

Esteban Municio Hernandez

Senior Researcher and Research Line Leader AI-RAN

Contact esteban.municio@i2cat.net
Esteban Municio is a Telecommunication Engineer and Researcher specialized in computer networks currently working in the AI-driven System group of the i2CAT Foundation. He received a B.Sc+M.Sc. degree of Telecommunication Engineering from the Madrid Polytechnic University (UPM) in 2013, a M.Sc degree in Networks and Computer Systems from the King Juan Carlos University (URJC) in 2014, and a PhD degree in Computer Science in imec - University of Antwerp in 2020. After finishing his PhD, he continued in imec - University of Antwerp as Postdoctoral Researcher for two years, working in the context of ultra-reliable IoT networks and end-to-end network programmability. He has been involved in some European research projects such as FP7 TUCAN3G, Celtic+ FlexNet, H2020 ProTego, H2020 InterConnect, H2020 Vital-5G and H2020 DAEMON. His main research interests are: traffic engineering, SDN, programmable wireless networks, TSN, network orchestration and ultra-reliable Industrial IoT. He is also interested in heterogeneous backhaul networks, smart cities deployments, community networks and connectivity provision in rural environments.

Publications

Enabling Beyond-Line-of-Sight Drones Operation over OpenRAN 5G Networks with Slicing

Baguer, P., et al. Enabling Beyond-Line-of-Sight Drones Operation over Open RAN 5G Networks with Slicing. 2024. IEEE Network Magazine

Attacking O-RAN Interfaces: Threat Modeling, Analysis and Practical Experimentation

Pau Baguer, Girma M. Yilma, Esteban Municio, Gines Garcia-Aviles, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Marco Liebsch, and Xavier Costa-Pérez. "Attacking O-RAN Interfaces: Threat Modeling, Analysis and Practical Experimentation". IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society. 2024