Senior Researcher and Research Line Leader AI-RAN
Esteban Municio is a Telecommunication Engineer and Senior Researcher specialized in wireless networks currently working in the AI-driven System group of the i2CAT Foundation. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of Antwerp (Belgium) in 2020 within imec's research group IDLab. He then continued in imec as postdoctoral researcher for two more years. Since January 2022, he has been with i2CAT, where currently he is Senior Researcher at the AI-driven Systems group. He is currently Adjunct Professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) in the Master in Connected Industry 4.0. He has been working in a number of EU projects within FP7, H2020, Horizon Europe and ESA-ARTES. His research interests are in the field of AI-driven programmable open networks, Open RAN, TSN, ultra-reliable Industrial IoT and Non-Terrestrial Networks. He is also interested in testbed deployments, community networks and connectivity provision in rural environments.
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
Baguer, P., et al. Enabling Beyond-Line-of-Sight Drones Operation over Open RAN 5G Networks with Slicing. 2024. IEEE Network Magazine
