
Contact Information
Address
Advanced Network Architectures Lab (CRAAX)
NEAPOLIS building,
Rambla Exposicio, 61-69,
08800 Vilanova i la Geltru,
Barcelona, Spain
Phone
+34938967280
Web page
Xavi Masip, PhD
Full Professor
Short bio
XAVI MASIP got a MSc and Ph.D. degrees in telecommunications engineering both from the Technical University of Catalonia. He is currently a full professor in the Computer Architecture department at the UPC, was invited professor at University Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC) in 2011 and 2012 and is one of the co-founders of the FOOXY initiative.
After more than one decade at the Advanced Broadband Communications Center in Barcelona, in 2006 he was awarded with one of the largest Infrastructures Projects ever (Catalan Government) to found the Advanced Network Architectures Lab (CRAAX) at the UPC Campus in Vilanova. From its formal creation in 2008, Xavi is leading the activities in the lab. His publications include more than 200 papers in national and international refereed journals and conferences in the areas of cloud/edge continuum, cybersecurity, AI processes optimization, health, etc, some book chapters as well as a didactic&practical book on the cloud continuum. Xavi has given several invited talks (IBM, Huawei, Cisco, UPEC, AdHocNets2013, etc.). He has also been member of the organizing team of many national and international conferences, serving as general chair for some of them (ONDM2008, WWIC2011, NOC2012, Saconet2014, Med-Hoc-Net2016, IEEE IWQoS2017, DRCN2023&2024). He serves as editor for the Optical Switching and Networking (OSN) journal and for the Computer Communications Journal, has served as editor for the Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (WCMC) journal and as invited editor for OSN, International Journal of Internet Protocol, Technology (IJIPT) and the International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems (IJPEDS). Xavi has participated and/or led many national and regional projects and EU contracts from the FP5, FP6, FP7, H2020 and HE programs (Lion, Nobel1, Nobel2, EuQoS, E-Net, E-NEXT, Content, e-Photon/One, e-Photon/One+, ONE, PACE, CIPSEC, mF2C, FISHY, the currently running ICOS, PHOENi2X, COBALT, SEC4TD, HORSE, ODEON, CYCLOPS, MANOLO, AI-DAPT and those about to start MARE, 6G-LEADER and ACCOMPLISH). Xavi has also led contracts with the industry (Cisco, Huawei, IBM) and with other institutions (i2cat as well as local and regional governments). In early 2013 he co-founded MATPOL Technologies, a Bay Area based start-up., and since 2017 he is working in the FOOXY initiative in the health sector along with researchers at the Hospital Clinic de Barcelona. Since 2011 till 2023 Xavi was the coordinator of the Computer Architecture PhD program at the UPC.
Xavi’s contributions were recognized with a 2016 IBM Faculty Award.
Visiting positions
– University Paris-Est Creteil (2011, 2012)
Recent seminars and talks
- “Driving towards a reliable edge“, DRCN 2019, Coimbra, Portugal March 2019
- “IoT, data, cloud and fog, the recipe for cooking innovative services“, IBM Almaden, San José, September 2017
- “Cloud and fog, new business coming“, IBM Almaden, San José, May 2015
- “Fogging clouds or cloudding fogs that is the question“, Huawei, Santa Clara, May 2015
Publications
Journals
Conferences
Book and chapters
- A.Jukan, X.Masip, J.Dizdarevic, F.Carpio, “Network of Things Engineering (NOTE) Lab”, Springer, ISBN: 978-3-031-20634-4
- X.Masip, E.Marín, J.Garcia, S.Sànchez, “Collaborative mechanism for hybrid fog-cloud scenarios”, in book “Fog and fogonomics: challenges and practices of fog computing, communication, networking, strategy, and economics”, Eds: Yang Yang, Jianwei Huang, Tao Zhang, Joe Weinman, John Wiley & sons, March 2020, ISBN: 978-1-119-50111-4
- A.Alvarez, et al. “CIPSEC-Enhancing Critical Infrastructure Protection with Innovative Security Framework”,in book “Challenges in Cybersecurity and Privacy – the European Research Landscape“, Editors: Jorge Bernal Bernabé, Antonio Skarmeta, River Publishers Series, 2019, ISBN: 9788770220880 (link)
- R.Serral-Gracià, E. Marín-Tordera, X. Masip Bruin, Chapter 9, “QoS and QoE Effects of Packet Losses in Multimedia Video Streaming”, in book Quality of Experiene Engineering for Customer Added Value Services: From Evaluation to Monitoring, Editors: Abdelhamid Mellouk and Antonio Cuadra-Sanchez, ISBN: 978-1-84821-672-3 July 2014, Wiley-ISTE.
- G.Maier, E.Marín, M.Quagliotti, W.Erangoli, G.Tamiri, M.Yannuzzi, X.Masip, R.Serral, “Cross Layer Control of Semitransparent Optical Networks under Physical Parameter Uncertainty”, in book Cross-Layer Design in Optical Networks, Springer, Optical Networks Series, 2013, ISSN: 978-1-4614-5670
- R. Serral-Gracia, et al. ”Chapter 2 – QoS Measurements in IP-based Networks in End-to-End Quality of Service Over Heterogeneous Networks,” Springer, Eds: Torsten Braun and Thomas Staub, August 2008.
- Fonte, E. Monteiro, M. Yannuzzi, X. Masip-Bruin, and J. Domingo-Pascual, ”A Framework for Cooperative Interdomain QoS Routing,” Springer Series: IFIP, Vol. 196, pp. 91 104, ISBN: 0-387-30815-6, March 2006.
- S. Sanchez-Lopez, X. Masip-Bruin, “Optical Circuit Switching: RWA and wavelength continuity constraint,” in book “Optical Burst Switching & Optical Packet Switching,“ Chapter 1, 2003.
- P. Van Mieghem, F. A. Kuipers, T. Korkmaz, M. Krunz, M. Curado, E. Monteiro, X. Masip-Bruin, J. Sole-Pareta and S. Sanchez-Lopez., “Quality of Service Routing,” chapter 2 of book QUALITY OF FUTURE INTERNET SERVICES: COST263 FINAL REPORT, Ed. Springer-Verlag, 2003, ISBN: , ISSN: 0302-9743, October 2003.
- R. Inkret, et al., “Circuit Wavelength Switching and Routing,” chapter 3 of book “Adavanced Infrastructure for Photonic Networks”, published by University of Zagreb, October 2003.
Students
PhD Students
Abdul Rehman Qureshi
Modeling security certification through digital twin emulated technology
Muhammad Imran
Enhancing AI performance through data pre-processing, model optimization, and cloud continuum allocation
Waseem Sajjad
Intelligent Multi-component Application Mapping in the cloud Continuum
Heribert Pascual
A decentralized edge-based AI-assisted solution toward a proactive ambulatory oxygen delivery therapy
Distributed learning in a Fog-to-Cloud architecture for Smart Environments
Impact Estimation and Prediction of Cyber-Attacks in 5G and B5G Networks
Ayaz Hussain
Predictive Analytics-based Strategies for Cyber-Security Provisioning in complex ICT systems
Former PhD students
Zeineb Rejiba
Discovery in mF2C systems
Souvik Sengupta
Resources Management in Fog-to-Cloud Systems
Hierarchical security fog-to-cloud (vertically) and fog-to-fog (horizontally)
Vitor Barbosa
“Service-oriented PCE Enabling Service Orchestration on IoT Scenarios“, January 2018
Amir Sinaeepourfard
“A Multidimensional Data-to-Decision Architecture for Open data-Based Applications“, December 2017
Anny Martínez (now at VMware)
“An Ontology-Based Approach Toward the Configuration of Heterogeneous Network Devices“, May 2015
Shuaib Siddiqui (now at i2cat)
“A Pragmatic Approach Toward Securing Inter-Domain Routing“, December 2014
Wilson Ramirez (now at Tecsidel)
“Resilience Mechanisms for Carrier-Grade Networks“, November 2014
Marcelo Yannuzzi (now at Cisco)
“Strategies for Internal Route Control: Past, presente and future”, December 2007
Eva Marín (at CRAAX)
“The Prediction-Based Routing Mechanism in Optical and IP/MPLS Networks”, June 2007
Projects
Current Projects
Past Projects
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Go2Edge: Engineering future secure edge computing networks, systems and services
Funded by:RED2018-102585-T | Duration: from January 2020 until December 2021
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GESTION DE UNA ARQUITECTURA JERARQUICA FOG-TO-CLOUD PARA ESCENARIOS IOT: COMPARTICION DE RECURSOS (MIAU)
Funded by: RTI2018-094532-B-I00 | Duration: January 2019 until September 2022
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GESTION DE UNA ARQUITECTURA CLOUD JERARQUICA PARA ESCENARIOS IOT: FOGGING CLOUD (GUAU)
Funded by: TEC2015-66220-R | Duration: January 2016 until December 2018
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“Elastic Networks: Nuevos paradigmas de redes elásticas para un mundo radicalmente basado en Cloud y Fog computing”
Funded by: TEC2015-71932-REDT | Duration: October 2015 until Septembre 2017
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Enhancing Critical Infrastructure Protection with innovative SECurity framework (CIPSEC)
Funded by: | Duration: May 2016 until 30 April 2019
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Towards an Open, Secure, Decentralized and Coordinated Fog-to-Cloud Management Ecosystem (mF2C)
Funded by: | Duration: January 2017 until 31 December 2019
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GESTIONA: “Design of Management Strategies for New Network Architectures (Future Internet)” (TEC-34682)
Funded by: Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spanish Government, TEC2012-34682 | Duration: Jan. 2013 till Dec. 2015
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“Next Steps in PAth Computation Element (PCE) Architectures: From Software-Defined Concepts to Standards, Interoperability and Deployment”
Funded by:EU FP7 | Duration: Nov. 2013 till Oct. 2015
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“Towards Automated Interactions between the Internet and the Carrier-Grade Management Ecosystems” (ONE)
Funded by:EU FP7 | Duration: Set. 2010 – Aug. 2013
Technology Transfer
Co-founder of the start-up Matpol, Inc., October 2012
Previous Projects (Projects before joining CRAAX, ending on 2007 at top)
European
PROJECT TITLE: Content Networks and Services for Home Users (CONTENT)
FUNDING INSTITUTION: UE IST FP6-506869
DURATION: FROM:07/2006 TO: 06/2009
PROJECT TITLE: Next Generation Opytical Network for Broadband European Leadership II(NOBEL2)
FUNDING INSTITUTION: UE FP6
DURATION: FROM: 01/2006 TO: 12/2007
PROJECT TITLE: Towards Digital Optical Networks
FUNDING INSTITUTION: Comisión Europea, Acción COST 291
DURATION: FROM: 2004 TO: 2008
PROJECT TITLE: End-to-end Quality of Service support over heterogeneous networks (EuQoS)
FUNDING INSTITUTION: UE IST FP6-004503
DURATION: FROM: 09/2004 TO: 08/2007
PROJECT TITLE: Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies (E-Next)
FUNDING INSTITUTION: UE IST FP6-506869
DURATION: FROM: 01/2004 TO: 12/2005
PROJECT TITLE: Next Generation Opytical Network for Broadband European Leadership (NOBEL)
FUNDING INSTITUTION: UE IST FP6-506760
DURATION: FROM: 01/2004 TO: 12/2005
PROJECT TITLE: Optical Networks: Towards Bandwidth Manageability and Cost Efficiency (e-Photon/One)
FUNDING INSTITUTION: UE IST
DURATION: FROM: 01/2004 TO: 12/2005
PROJECT TITLE: Quality of Future Internet Services (QofIS)
FUNDING INSTITUTION: Comisión Europea, Acción COST 263
DURATION: FROM: 02/1999 TO: 09/2003
PROJECT TITLE: LION, IST-1999-11387, Layers interworking in optical Networks
FUNDING INSTITUTION: UE IST IST-1999-11387
DURATION: FROM: Enero 2000 TO: 12/2002
National
PROJECT TITLE: Provisión de Servicios de Red Inter-dominio
FUNDING INSTITUTION: MCyT TSI2005-07520-C03-02 (Spanish Ministry)
DURATION: FROM:1/1/2006 TO: 31/12/2008
PROJECT TITLE: Demostrador de Nuevos Servicios para la red Académica de Banda Ancha
FUNDING INSTITUTION:CICYT TEL97-1054-C03-03 (Spanish Ministry)
DURATION: FROM:1/8/1997 TO: 31/7/1999
PROJECT TITLE: Demostrador de Nuevos Servicios para la red Académica de Banda Ancha 2 (SABA2)
FUNDING INSTITUTION:CICYT TEL99-1117-C03-03 (Spanish Ministry)
DURATION: FROM:1999 TO: 2001
PROJECT TITLE: Evaluación de arquitecturas de conmutación de paquetes para redes ópticas
FUNDING INSTITUTION:CICYT TIC99-0572-C02-02 (Spanish Ministry)
DURATION: FROM:31/12/1999 TO: 31/12/2002
PROJECT TITLE: Metodologías para la inspección de tráfico en redes avanzadas (MIRA)
FUNDING INSTITUTION:CICYT 2FD97-2234-C03-02 (Spanish Ministry)
DURATION: FROM:31/12/1999 TO: 31/12/2002
PROJECT TITLE: Red temática de gestión de redes IP orientadas a circuitos virtuales (MPLS)
FUNDING INSTITUTION:CICYT TIC2002-10150-E (Spanish Ministry)
DURATION: FROM:1/2002 TO 12/2007
PROJECT TITLE: Servicios avanzados de movilidad, provisón de calidad de servicio y evaluación de los servicios de red (SAM)
FUNDING INSTITUTION:CICYT FEDER-TIC2002-04531-C04-02 (Spanish Ministry)
DURATION: FROM: 12/2002 TO 11/2005
PROJECT TITLE: Transporte de tráfico IP sobre redes ópticas: diseño y evaluación (TRIPODE)
FUNDING INSTITUTION:CICYT FEDER-TIC2002-04344-C02-02 (Spanish Ministry)
DURATION: FROM: 2002 TO 2004
National
PROJECT TITLE: Provisión de Servicios de Red Inter-dominio
FUNDING INSTITUTION: MCyT TSI2005-07520-C03-02 (Spanish Ministry)
DURATION: FROM:1/1/2006 TO: 31/12/2008
PROJECT TITLE: Demostrador de Nuevos Servicios para la red Académica de Banda Ancha
FUNDING INSTITUTION:CICYT TEL97-1054-C03-03 (Spanish Ministry)
DURATION: FROM:1/8/1997 TO: 31/7/1999
PROJECT TITLE: Demostrador de Nuevos Servicios para la red Académica de Banda Ancha 2 (SABA2)
FUNDING INSTITUTION:CICYT TEL99-1117-C03-03 (Spanish Ministry)
DURATION: FROM:1999 TO: 2001
PROJECT TITLE: Evaluación de arquitecturas de conmutación de paquetes para redes ópticas
FUNDING INSTITUTION:CICYT TIC99-0572-C02-02 (Spanish Ministry)
DURATION: FROM:31/12/1999 TO: 31/12/2002
PROJECT TITLE: Metodologías para la inspección de tráfico en redes avanzadas (MIRA)
FUNDING INSTITUTION:CICYT 2FD97-2234-C03-02 (Spanish Ministry)
DURATION: FROM:31/12/1999 TO: 31/12/2002
PROJECT TITLE: Red temática de gestión de redes IP orientadas a circuitos virtuales (MPLS)
FUNDING INSTITUTION:CICYT TIC2002-10150-E (Spanish Ministry)
DURATION: FROM:1/2002 TO 12/2007
PROJECT TITLE: Servicios avanzados de movilidad, provisón de calidad de servicio y evaluación de los servicios de red (SAM)
FUNDING INSTITUTION:CICYT FEDER-TIC2002-04531-C04-02 (Spanish Ministry)
DURATION: FROM: 12/2002 TO 11/2005
PROJECT TITLE: Transporte de tráfico IP sobre redes ópticas: diseño y evaluación (TRIPODE)
FUNDING INSTITUTION:CICYT FEDER-TIC2002-04344-C02-02 (Spanish Ministry)
DURATION: FROM: 2002 TO 2004














