Service

This page summarizes the main tasks of service to the research community I have carried out to this date.

Editorial tasks

• • Guest editor of the JAISE Thematic Issue: "Applications in Intelligent Integrated Infrastructures" (deadline: 15 January 2023).

  • Guest editor of the MDPI Sensors - Special Issue: "Advances in Bluetooth Low Energy" (deadline: 15 April 2021).

  • Guest editor of the MDPI Sensors - Special Issue: "Intelligent Energy Management for Wireless Sensor Networks and Internet of things" (deadline: 20 February 2020).

  • Editorial board member of MDPI Sensors since December 2018. 

  • Guest editor of the MDPI Sensors - Special Issue: "Low Energy Wireless Sensor Networks: Protocols, Architectures and Solutions" (deadline: 15 September 2018).

  • Lead guest editor of the WCMC Special Issue on Advances in Low Power Wide Area Networks (deadline: 26 January 2018). 

  • Guest editor of the Electronics - Special Issue: Home Automation Systems (deadline: 29 February 2016).

  • Editorial board member of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing since March 2018.

  • Associate Editor of the Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments (JAISE). From November 2015 to December 2017.

  • Editorial board member of the Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments (JAISE) since November 2012.

Conference organization 

• Program Chair of the 20th International Conference on Intelligent Environments, IE 2024, Ljubljana, 17-20 June 2024. 

Technical Program Committees

• Smart City Expo World Congress, Barcelona, Spain, 2024.

• 19th International Conference on Intelligent Environments, IE 2023, Mauritius, 27-30 June 2023. 

• 12th International Conference on Sensor Networks, SENSORNETS 2023, Lisbon, Portugal, 23-24 February 2023.

• IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2022), 12-15 September, Virtual Conference, 2022.

• IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2021), 13-16 September, Virtual Conference, 2021.

• Green Solutions for SmArt Environment (SAGE), a workshop of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2021), Montreal, QC, Canada, 14-18 June 2021.

• IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2020), 31 August - 3 September, Virtual Conference, 2020.

• Smart City Expo World Congress, Barcelona, Spain, 2020.

• Intelligent Environments 2020 (IE'2020), 22-25 June, Madrid, Spain, 2020.

• 2nd Workshop on Machine Learning on Edge in Sensor Systems (SenSys-ML), Sydney, Australia, 21 April 2020.

• 1st Workshop on Machine Learning on Edge in Sensor Systems (SenSys-ML), New York, USA, 10th November 2019.

• Smart City Expo World Congress, Barcelona, Spain, 2019

• IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2019), 8-11 September, Istanbul, Turkey, 2019

• The 7th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud 2019), 26-28 August, Istanbul, Turkey, 2019.

• Intelligent Enviroments 2019 (IE'19), 24-27 June, Rabat, Morocco, 2019.

• Smart City Expo World Congress, Barcelona, Spain, 2018

• IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2018), 9-12 September, Bologna, Italy, 2018 

• IEEE International Workshop on Future Internet Architecture for Developing Regions (FI4D), Las Vegas, USA, 2017

• IEEE Workshop on Green Consumer Communications and Networking, Las Vegas, USA, 2017

• Smart City Expo World Congress, Barcelona, Spain, 2017

• Smart City Expo World Congress, Barcelona, Spain, 2016

• Smart City Expo World Congress, Barcelona, Spain, 2015

• The 4th International Conference on Consumer Electronics, Communications and Networks (CECNET 2014), Beijing, China, 2014.

• Smart City Expo World Congress, Barcelona, Spain, 2014

• Smart City Expo World Congress, Barcelona, Spain, 2013

• Smart City Expo World Congress, Barcelona, Spain, 2012

• International Workshop on M2M Communication Technologies and Systems, Wuxi, China, October 2012

• Intelligent Environments 2010 (IE'10)

• International Workshop on Wireless Ad Hoc, Mesh and Sensor Networks 2008 (WAMSNet-08)

• International Workshop on Wireless Ad Hoc, Mesh and Sensor Networks 2007 (WAMSNet-07)

• IEEE 21st International Conference on. Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA'07)

Reviewer

I have been a reviewer for the following journals:

• • Wireless Networks

  • IEEE Access

  • IEEE Communications Letters

  • IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

  • IEEE Communications Magazine

  • IEEE Network Magazine

  • IEEE Internet of Things Journal

  • International Journal of Computers and Applications

  • Software: Practice and Experience

  • Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

  • Transactions on Information Technology in BioMedicine

  • Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments (JAISE)

  • MDPI Sensors

  • Performance evaluation

  • Computer Communications

  • Ad Hoc Networks

  • EAI Endorsed Transactions on Internet of Things

  • Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications

I have been a reviewer for the following conferences and workshops:

• • IEEE Globecom (2019)

  • International Semantic Web Conference (2018)

  • WoWMoM (2011)

  • EUNICE (2009)

  • WAMSNET (2007, 2008)

  • PCAC (2007)

  • CONET (2007)

  • IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (2005)

  • IEEE Infocom (2005)

  • IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things - Workshop on IoT as driver for the co-created Smart City (2016)

  • Telecom I+D

  • JITEL

PhD committee member

I have been a member of the following PhD committees:

• • Dr. Lara Fernández Capón. Title: "Contribution to the Optimization of Natural Disasters Monitoring: an On-Demand Execution Strategy Approach". Date: 17 June 2024. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.

  • Dr. Mayssa Ghribi. Title: "Wake up Radio Approaches in IoT Networks". Date: 29 October 2022. University of Tunis El Manar (Tunisia).

  • Dr. Ashish Sultania. Title: "Enabling Bidirectional Communication on Batteryless Devices For Sustainable IoT". Date: 8 September 2022. University of Antwerp (Belgium).

  • Dr. Ioana Suciu. Title: "Energy Aware Optimization for Low Power Radio Technologies". Date: 10 March 2020. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.

  • Dr. Dixys Leonardo Hernández Rojas. Title: "Sistema de telemetría basado en WSN (Wireless Sensor Network) para el Internet de las Cosas (IoT)". Date: 20 November 2018. Universidade da Coruña.

  • Dr. Jie Song. Title: “A Semantic implementation for data management in an Open Building Automation Platform”. Date: 14 September 2017. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

  • Dr. Carlos Ley Bosch. Title: "Análisis de los efectos del problema del nodo oculto en las redes IEEE 802.15.7. Propuesta de solución".  Date: 29 January 2016. Advisor: Itziar Alonso González. Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

  • Dr. Trang Cao Minh. Title: "A Self-organizing Management Platform for Wireless Sensor Networks". Advisors: Boris Bellalta, Miquel Oliver. Date: 25 September 2014. Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

  • Dr. Alessandro Ludovici. Title: "New Architectures for Ubiquitous Networks: Use and Adaptation of Internet Protocols over Wireless Sensor Networks". Advisor: Anna Calveras. Date: 7th July 2014. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.

  • Dr. Carlos Ramírez Casañas. Title: "Contribuciones a la gestión de los recursos radio en redes móviles celulares de radio paquetes con soporte de calidad de servicio". Advisors: Josep Paradells, Rafael Pérez. Date: 19 December 2011. Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

  • Dr. Marisa Catalán Cid. Title: "Contribution to techniques in order to improve the performance of Internet access over 2.5G, 3G and beyond 3G networks". Advisor: Dr. Anna Calveras. Date: 16 March 2009. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.