Projects

Digital Transformation in Rural Areas through UAVs: A Sustainable Technological Architecture (2025-2027).

RuralServ: An UAV-based architecture for the deployment of digital services in rural zones with lack of connectivity (2022-2025). [Link]

Editorial Activities

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. [Link]

IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking. [Link]

Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks. [Link]

Journal of Network and Systems Management. [Link]

Supervision

PhD. Current (ongoing)

1. José Antonio Gómez de la Hiz (PhD). Network Management and Configuration Models for Reducing the Internet’s Carbon Footprint.

2. Santiago García Gil (PhD). Deep Reinforcement Learning Augmented with Graph-based Neural Networks management optimization for UAV-assisted networks.

3. Andrés García López (PhD). Real-time identification of control congestion algorithms in programmable networks.

4. Rafael Martín Espada (PhD). Proposal and investigation of energy efficiency optimization in SCION infrastructures.

PhD. Past (graduated)

1. Manuel Jesús Azabal (PhD, Oct. 2023). Sustainable Opportunistic Communication Architecture for the Deployment of Edge-Fog-Cloud Applications in Remote Rural Areas.

Master Thesis

1. Javier Rubio (MSc, Sept. 2025). InspectoDron: Automated Infrastructure Inspection System Using Drones.

2. Manuel Jiménez Lázaro (MSc, Nov. 2024). Machine Learning based network configuration prediction for Energy Efficiency improvement in SDN.

3. Santiago García Gil (MSc, Nov. 2024). Deep Reinforcement Learning Augmented with Graph-based Neural Networks: A Flying Ad Hoc Network Use Case.

4. Diego Ramos Ramos (MSc, Feb. 2024). Energy-Efficient Deployment of Microservices-Based IoT Applications in UAV Networks for Rural Areas.

5. Gonzalo Jiménez Hinchado (MSc, Jan. 2022). Mixed Reality Application for the Learning and Assembly of Cyber-Physical Systems.

6. Manuel Jesús Azabal (MSc, Jan. 2021). A Self-Sustainable Opportunistic Solution for Isolation Monitoring in Rural Areas.

7. Juan Luis Herrera González (MSc, Jan. 2021). Framework for the Deployment of Distributed IoT Applications in Edge-Fog-Cloud Environments.

8. Cristóbal Gómez Castillo (MSc, July 2018). Optimization of Flow Reconfiguration in SDN.

9. Gonzalo Fajardo Medina (MSc, Sept. 2016). SDN Applications Composition on NetIDE.