Miguel Fuentes Gonzales

Current Role & Responsibilities
Research Engineer at i2CAT focused on mobile network innovation, especially O-RAN, 4G/5G core, specially energy-efficient UPF design. I work on research, prototyping, and deployment of open-source mobile technologies for RAN and core networks.

Skills & Expertise

Mobile core and RAN architectures (4G/5G, O-RAN)

Programming: Python, C, C++

DPDK, VPP, traffic engineering and Energy-aware policy design

Key Contributions

• UPF-VPP energy-aware policies for the SNS BeGreen project
• Slicing xAPP development (RC/CCC SM) and A1-nearRT RIC integration for EU-NANCY
• OAI Spring of Code: contributed to KPM SM OpenAirInterface nearRT-RIC (3rd place winner)
• Security research on gNB resource depletion and RRC fuzzing (CICERO)
• Mobile core development for NB-IoT/NTN networks at i2CAT (2021-2023)

Previous Experience

• Packet Core Engineer at Huawei: Cloud EPC (vMME, vSPGW, vCG) deployment and Telefónica UNICA VNF onboarding