Network Services & Automation
Towards software-based networks sustained by programmability and AI techniques.
Location
Positioning systems and algorithms for mobile terminal location.
Green Networking
Augmented energy efficiency in access and transport networks.
Business-driven
Approaches for IT services lifecycle to meet their user needs.
Edge-cloud
Slicing of edge datacenters and networks allowing for a plethora of new services
Blockchain
Building decentralized and reliable ecosystems with blockchain technologies.
5G and beyond networks
New Paradigm of 5G Wireless Internet and future networks
Vehicle to Everything
Creating connectivity for vehicles and the smart city. Electrical and autonomous vehicles. Mobility and safety.
Privacy
Protection of personal sensitive data against unauthorized use. Data anonymization. Anonymous communication systems.
Network intelligence
Generation of new knowledge through AI and its application to network management, service provisioning and software-based networks and infrastructures, sustained by the programmability of data, control and management planes.
Cybersecurity
Protecting people and devices against cybersecurity attacks. Providing security to critical services (e-government and e-health).
IoT
Design of new algorithms, protocols and network architectures for efficiently enabling smart cities and moving towards the Industry 4.0 paradigm.
UPC news
News
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The CARISMATICA Chair and the ISG-MAK group of the Department are behind the organization of the IX National Cybersecurity Research Conference (JNIC) 2026
IX National Cybersecurity Research Conference (JNIC) at the UPC -
During the event of the UPC Social Council on November 19, 2025, recognition was given to the researchers included in the ranking of women researchers compiled by the CSIC in 2024.
Recognition of department women researchers -
Department professors included in the Stanford University ranking in collaboration with Elsevier-Scopus.
Researchers from the Department among the top 2% most cited. -
The 27th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM 2025), has been hold in the UPC Campus Nord this edition. MSWiM has established...
Members of the SISCOM research group organized the MSWiM 2025 conference -
Professors Elena López Aguilera and Mónica Aguilar Igartua as new full professors at the UPC on July 15, 2025.
Two new full professors in the Network Engineering department
