Jose Alcaraz Calero public CV

Jose Alcaraz Calero

Professor

Professor, School of Computing, Engineering and Physical Sciences
Professor, Artificial Intelligence, Visual Communications and Networks Research Centre
Professor, Database and Knowledge Management Research Group

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

Network Management of Fog Computing Architectures Network Management of Mobile Edge Computing Architectures Network Management of Cloud Computing Architectures Network Management of 5G Mobile Architectures Security in Fog Computing Architectures Security in Mobile Edge Computing Architectures Security in Cloud Computing Architectures Security in 5G Mobile Architectures Cognition Plane of the Novel Networks Architectures

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Personal profile

Overview

Prof. Jose M. Alcaraz Calero (PhD, MEng, BEng, SMIEEE, FHEA), is Full Professor in Networks and Security at School of Engineering and Computing, University of the West of Scotland, UK. He is Representative Member of the EU 5G-PPP Technological Board; the NATO Working Group IST-118; and the Internet Technical Committee. He has been involved in international research projects totalling more 20m EUR. He is Co-Technical Coordinator of the H2020 5G PPP SELFNET Consortium (6.8m EUR). Jose M. shifted to the industrial side of research working 4 years for the Cloud and Security Lab, at Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories, United Kingdom. He has published more than 100 articles in journals, magazines, books and conferences in Computer Science and Telecommunications, including more than 15 international patents and intellectual properties rights. He is Associated Editor for a number of prestigious journals such asIEEE Communication Magazine and Chair in a number of prestigious conferences such as IEEE TrustCom, IEEE ATC. He has received a number of international awards such as best PhD award on Computer Science and Outstanding Chair Award, among others.

Area of academic expertise - outline

His main research interests include (but not limited):

Artifical-Intelligent applied to Self-Organized Networks
Large-Scale IT Infrastructures, including Cloud Computing, Fog Computing and Mobile Edge Computing.
Large-Scale Telecommunication Infrastructures, including 4G and 5G Networks.
Management of Large-scale Data Centres , including Automatization, Virtualization, Monitoring & Self-Management Capabilities.
Management of Large-scale Networks, including Software-Defined Networks, Self-Organized Networks & Network Function Virtualized.
Distributed Emulation of Large-Scale IT Scenarios, including Mobile Communications, Disadvantaged Communications and Wired Communications.
Data and Network Security for Large-Scale Distributed and Federated Infrastructures, including Authentication, Access Control, Trust, Policy-based Systems & Privacy.
Distributed Big Data Processing Platforms including Batch Data, Graph Data, & Stream Data.

Current research activities

Currently, I´m coordinating SELFNET, an ambitious project where telecommunication operators, vendors, research centers, small and medium businesses and universities aims to prototype advanced self-organized network features for the novel 5G Networks.

Target collaborative companies

Internet Service Providers: (Fixed and Mobile Operators)
IT Vendors: (Mobile, Data Centre and Networking)
Vertial Sector: (Automotive, Industry, Digital Content Providers, Animation)

Target collaborative organisations

Goverment Divisions of Cyber-Defence
Military Divisions of Cyber-Defence
Telecommunication Standardization Bodies

Desired research direction

The main ambition is to prototype advance mobile telecommunication operator infrastructures governed by artificial intelligence systems with the intention to take over the control of the communications in order to bring the quality of communication links between humans and machines to a next step.

Other areas of expertise available for knowledge exchange

Management of Large-Scale Data Centres
Cloud Architectures
Network Management
Data and Network Security
Software Engineering of Large Projects

Keywords

QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
5G
security
self-organized networks
cloud computing
distributed systems
automation
network management

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Research Output

33 Article
15 Conference contribution
10 Commissioned report
7 Paper
5 More

Real-time video adaptation in virtualised 5G networks

Salva-Garcia, P., Alcaraz-Calero, J. M., Wang, Q., Barros, M. & Gavras, A., 13 Feb 2020, Proceedings of the 44th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks: October 14-17, 2019, Osnabrück, Germany. Andersson, K., Tan, H-P. & Oteafy, S. (eds.). IEEE, (Conference on Local Computer Networks).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Open Access

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5G PPP Architecture Working Group: View on 5G Architecture

Redana, S. (ed.), Bulakci, Ö. (ed.), Zafeiropoulos, A., Gavras, A., Tzanakaki, A., Albanese, A., Kousaridas, A., Weit, A., Sayadi, B., Jou, B. T., Bernardos, C. J., Benzaid, C., Mannweiler, C., Camps-Mur, D., Breitgand, D., Estevez, D. G., Navratil, D., Mi, D., Lopez, D., Klonidis, D. & 38 others, Mutafungwa, E., Fotopoulou, E., Kafetzakis, E., Pateromichelakis, E., Biton, E., Tesema, F. B., Kalfas, G., Karl, H., Bartelt, J., Gutiérrez, J., Cosmas, J., Thomson, J., Giménez, J. J., Alcaraz Calero, J. M., Mangues-Bafalluy, J., Katsalis, K., Gallo, L., Gramaglia, M., Spada, M. R., Salih, M., Nikaein, N., Jawad, N., Maletic, N., Bulakci, Ö., Demestichas, P., Hasselmeyer, P., Wang, Q., Wei, Q., Ustok, R. F., Blom, R., Pontarelli, S., Keskin, S., Salsano, S., Parker, S., Deiss, T., Acar, U., Li, X. & Zhang, Y., 19 Jun 2019, European Commission. 166 p.

Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

Open Access

5G smart city vertical slice

Rusti, B., Stefanescu, H., Iordache, M., Ghenta, J., Patachia, C., Gouvas, P., Zafeiropoulos, A., Fotopoulou, E., Wang, Q. & Alcaraz Calero, J. M., 20 May 2019, 2019 IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Network and Service Management (IM). IEEE, p. 13-19 7 p. (IEEE Conference Proceedings).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

A management platform for citizen’s data protection regulation

Huertas Celdrán, A., Gil Pérez, M., Mlakar, I., Alcaraz Calero, J. M., García Clemente, F. J. & Martínez Pérez, G., 5 Nov 2019, Smart City and Informatization: 7th International Conference, iSCI 2019, Guangzhou, China, November 12-15, 2019, Proceedings. Wang, G., El Saddik, A., Lai, X., Martinez Perez, G. & Choo, K-K. R. (eds.). Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd, p. 60-72 13 p. (Communications in Computer and Information Science; vol. 1122 CCIS).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Autonomic protection of multi-tenant 5G mobile networks against UDP flooding DDoS attacks

Serrano Mamolar, A., Salva Garcia, P., Chirivella Perez, E., Pervez, Z., Alcaraz-Calero, J. M. & Wang, Q., 1 Nov 2019, In : Journal of Network and Computer Applications. 145, 1, 102416.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Activities

4 Types of Business and Community - Membership of public/government advisory/policy group or panel
2 Types of Business and Community - Invited Talk
1 Types of Business and Community - Consultancy (in kind)