Senior Researcher and Research Line Leader AI-RAN
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.
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