IMDEA Networks
Publications
Publications of 2025
Book Chapters (1)
XAI for Network Management
Claudio Fiandrino, Pablo Fernández, Marco Fiore, Joerg Widmer
Elsevier. ISBN: 978-0-443-29135-7. April 2025
Journal Articles (25)
An End-to-End Pipeline Perspective on Video Streaming in Best-Effort Networks: A Survey and Tutorial
Leonardo Peroni, Sergey Gorinsky
ACM Computing Surveys. 10.1145/3742472. Volume 57 , ACM. December 2025
The Effect of Platform Policies on App Privacy Compliance: A Study of Child-Directed Apps
Noura Alomar, Joel Reardon, Aniketh Girish, Narseo Vallina-Rodríguez, Serge Egelman
Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies 2025. July 2025
Social Compliance with NPIs, Mobility Patterns, and Reproduction Number: Lessons from COVID-19 in Europe (Accepted for publication)
Daniele Baccega, Jose Aguilar, Carlos Baquero, Antonio Fernández Anta, Juan Marcos Ramirez
IEEE Access. 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3586508. IEEE. ISSN: 2169-3536. July 2025
A Prescriptive Approach based on Fuzzy Cognitive Maps and Genetic Algorithms for Disease Management in Beef Production
Rodrigo García, Jose Aguilar, William Hoyos
IEEE Access. 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3583670. Volume 13 , IEEE. ISSN: 2169-3536. July 2025
Profiling- and learning-based co-design of communication and compute in scalable robotics
Andrea Fresa, Nicola Ferrrarese, Yu Liu, Mina Ferizbegovic, Aitor Hernandez Herranz
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 10.1109/JSAC.2025.3574600. Volume Co-Design of Communication, Computing, and Control in Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems , IEEE. ISSN: 1558-0008. June 2025
Sentiment analysis on social networks for defining innovation problems in organizations
Ana Gutiérrez, Jose Aguilar, Ana Ortega, Edwin Montoya
Technology in Society. 10.1016/j.techsoc.2024.102804. Elsevier. ISSN: 1879-3274. June 2025
Monitoring 5G Core Networks Vulnerabilities with eBPF (Accepted for publication)
Gabriele Nunziati, Claudio Fiandrino, Luca Foschini, Paolo Bellavista
IEEE Networking Letters. IEEE. June 2025
LLM-KGMQA: large language model-augmented multi-hop question-answering system based on knowledge graph in medical field
Feilong Wang, Donghui Shi, Jose Aguilar, Xinyi Cui, Jinsong Jiang, Shen Longjian, Mengya Li
Knowledge and Information Systems. 10.1007/s10115-025-02399-1. Springer. ISSN: 0219-3116. June 2025
Autonomous cycle of data analysis tasks for the determination of the coffee productive process for MSMEs
Jairo Fuentes, Jose Aguilar, Edwin Montoya
Journal of Industrial Information Integration. 10.1016/j.jii.2025.100788. Volume 44 , Elsevier. ISSN: 2467-964X. May 2025
Brain Tumors Classification in MRIs Based on Personalized Federated Distillation Learning With Similarity‐Preserving
Bo Wu, Donghui Shi, Jose Aguilar
International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology. 10.1002/ima.70046. Volume 35 , Wiley. ISSN: 0899-9457. May 2025
Steady-state coherence in multipartite quantum systems: its connection with thermodynamic quantities and impact on quantum thermal machines (Accepted for publication)
Huang Rui, Qing-Yu Cai, Farzam Nosrati, Rosario Lo Franco, Zhong-Xiao Man
Quantum Science and Technology. April 2025
How mature is 5G deployment? A cross-sectional, year-long study of 5G uplink performance
Imran Khan, Moinak Ghoshal, Joana Angjo, Sigrid Dimce, Mushahid Hussain, Paniz Parastar, Yenchia Yu, Xueting Yeng, Sumit Hawal, Shirui Huang, Ameya Rane, Yin Wang, Claudio Fiandrino, Charalampos Orfanidis, Shivang Aggarwal, Ana C Aguiar, Ozgu Alay, Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Falko Dressler, Y. Charlie Hu, Steven Y. Ko, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Joerg Widmer
Computer Communications. 10.1016/j.comcom.2025.108153. Elsevier. April 2025
Specification of users’ cognitive functions and emotions to promote their training through Serious games
Claudia Gómez Llanez, Paola Vallejo, Jose Aguilar
Entertainment Computing. 10.1016/j.entcom.2025.100921. Volume 53 , Elsevier. ISSN: 1875-953X. April 2025
Middle-Output Deep Image Prior for Blind Hyperspectral and Multispectral Image Fusion
Jorge Bacca, Cristian Arcos, Juan Marcos Ramirez, Henry Arguello
Signal Processing: Image Communication. 10.1016/j.image.2024.117247. Volume 132 , Elsevier. ISSN: 0923-5965. March 2025
AIChronoLens: AI/ML Explainability for Time Series Forecasting in Mobile Networks
Pablo Fernández, Claudio Fiandrino, Eloy Perez Gomez, Hossein Mohammadalizadeh, Marco Fiore, Joerg Widmer
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 10.1109/TMC.2025.3554035. IEEE. March 2025
Specification of a smart-analysis system of sound events for smart environments
Jose Aguilar, Gabriela Santiago
Applied Computing and Informatics. 10.1108/ACI-06-2024-0240. Emerald. ISSN: 2634-1964. March 2025
PCP-YOLO: an approach integrating non-deep feature enhancement module and polarized self-attention for small object detection of multiscale defects
Penglin Wang, Donghui Shi, Jose Aguilar
Signal, Image and Video Processing. 10.1007/s11760-024-03666-4. Volume 19 , Springer. February 2025
Multimodal packaging waste brand identification approach for extended producer responsibility traceability
Juan Carlos Arbeláez-Estrada, Jose Aguilar, Paola Vallejo, Daniel Correa, Santiago Ruiz-Arenas, Elizabeth Rendón-Vélez, David Ríos-Zapata, Joan Alvarado
Journal of Cleaner Production. 10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.144601. Volume 487 , Elsevier. February 2025
Systematic literature review on quantum applications in nanotechnology
Alberto Pacheco, Jose Aguilar
The Journal of Supercomputing. 10.1007/s11227-024-06747-w. Volume 81 , Springer. February 2025
DeExp: Revealing Model Vulnerabilities for Spatio-Temporal Mobile Traffic Forecasting with Explainable AI
Serly Moghadas Gholian, Claudio Fiandrino, Narseo Vallina-Rodríguez, Marco Fiore, Joerg Widmer
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. IEEE. January 2025
Real-Time Encrypted Traffic Classification in Programmable Networks with P4 and Machine Learning
Aristide Tanyi Jong Akem, Guillaume Fraysse, Marco Fiore
International Journal of Network Management. 10.1002/nem.2320. Volume 35 , Wiley. January 2025
Practical and General-Purpose Flow-Level Inference with Random Forests in Programmable Switches (Accepted for publication)
Aristide Tanyi Jong Akem, Beyza Bütün, Michele Gucciardo, Marco Fiore
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 10.1109/TON.2025.3564465. January 2025
An Enhanced Virtualized Control and Key Management Model for QKD Networks
Blanca López, Iván Vidal, Francisco Valera, Diego R. López
IEEE Network. 10.1109/MNET.2025.3538752. January 2025
Demystifying Resource Allocation Policies in Operational 5G mmWave Networks
Phuc Dinh, Moinak Ghoshal, Yunmeng Han, Yufei Feng, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Joerg Widmer
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. IEEE/ACM. January 2025
Sentiment Analysis on Social Networks for Defining Innovation Problems in Organizations
Ana Gutiérrez, Jose Aguilar, Ana Ortega, Edwin Montoya
Technology in Society. 10.1016/j.techsoc.2024.102804. Volume 81 , ISSN: 1879-3274. January 2025
Magazine Articles (3)
Application-Driven Offloading of XR Mission Critical via Integrated TN/NTN (Accepted for publication)
Olga Chukhno, Nadezda Chukhno, Aleksandr Ometov, Sara Pizzi, Giuseppe Araniti, Antonella Molinaro
IEEE Network. 10.1109/MNET.2025.3572214. IEEE. ISSN: 1558-156X. May 2025
DISC: A Dataset for Integrated Sensing and Communications in mmWave Systems (Accepted for publication)
Jacopo Pegoraro, Pablo Saucedo, Jesus Omar Lacruz, Michele Rossi, Joerg Widmer
IEEE Communications Magazine. Volume COMMAG-24-00687.R1 , March 2025
User-Plane Algorithms for Stateless and Stateful Inference in Programmable Networks
Aristide Tanyi Jong Akem
ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review. 10.1145/3712170.3712177. Volume 52 , ACM. January 2025
Conference and Workshop Papers (19)
Efficient Estimation of Non-Circular (NC) Wavefronts via R-D Tensorized NC Tensor-ESPRIT-type Algorithms
Sai Pavan Deram, Khaled Ardah, Joerg Widmer, Martin Haardt
Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers. Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, California, USA. October 2025
'Hey mum, I dropped my phone down the toilet': Investigating Hi Mum and Dad SMS Scams in the United Kingdom
Sharad Agarwal, Emma Harvey, Enrico Mariconti, Guillermo Suarez-Tangil, Marie Vasek
Usenix Security Symposium. Seattle, WA, USA. August 2025
Deanonymizing Ethereum Validators: The P2P network has a privacy issue
Lioba Heimbach, Yann Vonlanthen, Juan Villacis, Lucianna Kiffer, Roger Wattenhofer
Usenix Security Symposium. Seatlle, WA, USA. August 2025
Unraveling the Probabilistic Forest: Arbitrage in Prediction Markets
Oriol Saguillo, Lucianna Kiffer, Vahid Ghafouri, Guillermo Suarez-Tangil
Advances in Financial Technologies. Pittsburgh, PA, USA. July 2025
Your Signal, Their Data: An Empirical Privacy Analysis of Wireless-scanning SDKs in Android
Aniketh Girish, Joel Reardon, Juan Tapiador, Srdjan Matic, Narseo Vallina-Rodríguez
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (was International Workshop of Privacy Enhancing Technologies). Washington, DC, USA. July 2025
HELIX: High-speed Real-Time Experimentation Platform for 6G Wireless Networks
Rafael Ruiz, Jesus Omar Lacruz, Bastian Bloessl, Matthias Hollick, Joerg Widmer
ACM SIGMOBILE International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services. Anaheim, USA. July 2025
Beneath the surface: An analysis of OEM customizations on the Android TLS protocol stack
Vinuri Bandara, Stijn Pletinckx, Ilya Grishchenko, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna, Juan Tapiador, Narseo Vallina-Rodríguez
IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy. Venice, Italy. June 2025
MUDGUARD: Taming Malicious Majorities in Federated Learning using Privacy-Preserving Byzantine-Robust Clustering
Rui Wang, Xingkai Wang, Huanhuan Chen, Jérémie Decouchant, Stjepan Picek, Nikolaos Laoutaris, Kaitai Liang
ACM SIGMETRICS. Stony Brook, New York, USA. June 2025
6G Standardization Potential of the ORIGAMI Novel Architectures and Use Cases
Livia Elena Chatzieleftheriou, David De Andrés Hernández, Simone Bizzarri, Marco Fiore, Maurizio Fodrini, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Marco Gramaglia, Esteban Municio, Dimitris Tsolkas
EuCNC & 6G Summit 2025. Poznan, Poland. June 2025
RISENSE: Long-Range In-Band Wireless Control of Passive Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Sai Pavan Deram, Marco Rossanese, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Syed Waqas Haider Shah, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Joerg Widmer, Xavier Costa-Perez
ACM SIGMOBILE International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services. Anaheim, California, USA. June 2025
SoK: Evaluating 5G-Advanced Protocols Against Legacy and Emerging Privacy and Security Attacks
Stavros Eleftherakis, Domenico Giustiniano, Nicolas Kourtellis
ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks. Arlington, Virginia, USA. June 2025
Interpretable Outlier and Anomaly Detection for Mobile Networks from Small Tabular Data
Juan Marcos Ramirez, Pablo Rojo, Vincenzo Mancuso, Antonio Fernández Anta
IFIP International Conference on Networking. Limassol, Cyprus. May 2025
An Urban Geography of Mobile Application Usage: Connecting Demand Dynamics and Urban Fabrics
Sachit Mishra, Diego Madariaga, Cezary Ziemlicki, Diala Naboulsi, Marco Fiore
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications. London, United Kingdom. May 2025
ALPHAS: Adaptive Bitrate Ladder Optimization for Multi-Live Video Streaming
Farzad Tashtarian, Mahdi Dolati, Daniele Lorenzi, Mojtaba Mozhganfar, Sergey Gorinsky, Ahmad Khonsari, Christian Timmerer, Hermann Hellwagner
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications. London, United Kingdom. May 2025
A Scalable DNN Training Framework for Traffic Forecasting in Mobile Networks
Serly Moghadas Gholian, Claudio Fiandrino, Joerg Widmer
IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning for Communication and Networking. Barcelona, Spain. May 2025
Gen-TWIN: Generative-AI-Enabled Digital Twin for Open Radio Access Networks
Osman Tugay Basaran, Davide Villa, Pedram Johari, Michele Polese, Claudio Fiandrino, Falko Dressler, Tommaso Melodia
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications. London, United Kingdom. May 2025
SYMBXRL: Symbolic Explainable Deep Reinforcement Learning for Mobile Networks
Abhishek Duttagupta, Mohammaderfan Jabbari, Claudio Fiandrino, Marco Fiore, Joerg Widmer
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications. London, United Kingdom. May 2025
CHRONOPROF: Profiling Time Series Forecasters and Classifiers in Mobile Networks with Explainable AI
Pablo Fernández, Iñaki Bravo, Anirudh Kamath, Claudio Fiandrino, Joerg Widmer
IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks. May 2025
DUNE: Distributed Inference in the User Plane
Beyza Bütün, David De Andrés Hernández, Michele Gucciardo, Marco Fiore
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications. London, United Kingdom. May 2025
Conference and Workshop Posters & Demos (7)
New QUBO Transformations to Improve Quantum and Simulated Annealing Performance for Quadratic Knapsack (Poster)
Nicolás Borrajo, Juan Marcos Ramirez, Farzam Nosrati, Jose Aguilar, Vincenzo Mancuso, Antonio Fernández Anta
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. Malaga, Spain. July 2025
RISENSE: : Long-Range In-Band Wireless Control of Passive Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (Poster)
Sai Pavan Deram, Marco Rossanese, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Syed Waqas Haider Shah, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Joerg Widmer, Xavier Costa-Perez
ACM SIGMOBILE International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services. Anaheim, California, USA. June 2025
Demonstrating Deep Learning-based Spatial Diffusion (Demo)
Orlando E. Martínez-Durive, Stefanos Sotirios Bakirtzis, Cezary Ziemlicki, Marco Fiore
IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops. London, United Kingdom. May 2025
Interactive Explanation and Steering of DRL Agents for Massive MIMO Scheduling with SYMBXRL (Demo)
Abhishek Duttagupta, Mohammaderfan Jabbari, Claudio Fiandrino, Marco Fiore, Joerg Widmer
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications. London, United Kingdom. May 2025
Demonstrating Distributed Inference in the User Plane with DUNE (Demo)
Beyza Bütün, David De Andrés Hernández, Jose Aguilar, Michele Gucciardo, Marco Fiore
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications. London, United Kingdom. May 2025
Ph.D. Forum: Explainable AI for Time Series Analysis in 5G/6G Operations (Other)
Pablo Fernández, Claudio Fiandrino, Joerg Widmer
IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks. Fort Worth, Texas, USA. May 2025
Demo: Explaining Time Series Interactively with CHRONOPROF (Demo)
Pablo Fernández, Iñaki Bravo, Anirudh Kamath, Claudio Fiandrino, Joerg Widmer
IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks. Fort Worth, Texas, USA. May 2025
Invited Papers, Keynotes, Invited Talks, Tutorials, Lectures, etc. (2)
RIPE Atlas: Can we found where the cloud is? (Invited Talk)
Antonio Bazco-Nogueras
Summer School on Advanced Topics in 5G/6G Communications. Cuenca, Spain. July 2025
Understanding the cloud through data analysis with ripe atlas (Invited Talk)
Antonio Bazco-Nogueras
Summer School on Advanced Topics in 5G/6G Communications. Cuenca, Spain. July 2025
Theses (5)
Data-Driven Exploration of Sociological Patterns in Mobile Network Traffic Demands (PhD)
Sachit Mishra
April 2025
NLP-Driven Approaches to Measuring Online Polarization and Radicalization (PhD)
Vahid Ghafouri
pp. 214 , March 2025
Efficient 5G Mobile Network Management: Network Slicing and Global Roaming Optimization (PhD)
Sergi Alcalá-Marín
pp. 136 , February 2025
User Empowerment in Adaptive Video Streaming over Best-Effort Networks (PhD)
Leonardo Peroni
February 2025
Sharing Heterogeneous Computing Resources in Virtualized Open Radio Access Networks (PhD)
Leonardo Lo Schiavo
January 2025
Technical Reports (1)
An extended review of Reversing the Virtual Maze: An Overview of the Technical and Methodological Challenges for Metaverse App Analysis
Alfonso Rodriguez Barredo-Valenzuela, Sergio Pastrana, Narseo Vallina-Rodríguez, Guillermo Suarez-Tangil
pp. 12 , IMDEA Networks Institute. June 2025