NErD'25

Network Engineering Day 2025

The Network Engineering Department of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya is pleased to promote and organize the 4th Network Engineering Day (NErD'25), a workshop on Communications Networks, Systems and Services.

July 2nd 2025 • Campus Diagonal Nord UPC, Barcelona.

About

This is an event aimed at the scientific community in general, in which a forum will be offered to the students of the Network Engineering Department to present their works and projects, organized into four different categories. In each category, some prizes will be awarded to the best works.

Technical Program

09:00 Opening
09:15 Ph.D.1 Session
  • 09:15 - Jordi Domènech Fons, "Preventive and Reactive Cybersecurity Techniques on IoT devices in Healthcare Environments".
  • 09:40 - Guido Betcher Sbrolla, "Enhanced mechanisms for next generation mobile Wi-Fi networks".
  • 10:05 - Agneev Guin, "An AI system to predict intelligent routes for a large fleet of vehicles".
  • 10:30 - Xavier Ezequiel Calle Heredia, "Digital Twin-Driven Virtual Network Architecture for Enhanced Extended Reality Capabilities".
10:55 Presentation of Cátedra CARISMÁTICA
11:05 Coffee Break
11:35 Ph.D.2 Session
  • 11:35 - Roger Sánchez Vital, "Contributions to energy-efficient multi-radio architectures for novel IoT scenarios".
  • 12:00 - Néstor González Díaz, "Improving the Scalability and Availability of Indoor Location Solutions based on Wi-Fi RTT".
  • 12:25 - Alberto Bazán Guillén, "Smart charging scheduling for electric vehicles in urban environments".
  • 12:50 - Àlex Miranda Pascual, "Trajectory Sharing with Proven Privacy".
13:15 Lunch
14:45 Master Session
  • 14:45 - Hadi Niknahad, "Intent-Based Conflict Management in Transport Network Services".
  • 15:00 - Juan Pablo Pinzón, "QoS-based multimetric routing protocols for vehicular networks".
15:15 Bacherlor's Degree Session
  • 15:15 - Ferran Saigi, "Modelling and Optimization of Hardware Clocks for Satellite Based Quantum Networks".
  • 15:30 - Oriol López Petit, "Development of an AI-Based Intrusion Detection System for IoMT Environments using Neural Networks".
  • 15:45 - Javier Marques Martínez, "Tool for Generating IoMT Datasets Applied to Intrusion Detection".
16:00 Coffee Break
16:30 Award Ceremony
16:45 Closing

Categories

Ph.D.1

First or second year students of the Doctoral Program in Network Engineering

Awards

1st: Jordi Domènech Fons

2nd: Guido Betcher Sbrolla

3rd: Xavier Ezequiel Calle Heredia

4th: Agneev Guin

Committee

Dr. Marc Jofre Cruanyes

Dra. Anna Calveras Auge

Ph.D.2

Students above the third year of the Doctoral Program in Netowrk Engineering

Awards

1st: Roger Sánchez Vital

2nd: Àlex Miranda Pascual

3rd: Néstor González Díaz

4th: Alberto Bazán Guillén

Committee

Dr. Joan Serrat Fernández

Dr. Marcos Postigo Boix

Masters

Students who complete their Master's studies during the 2024-2025 academic year. They must present their Master's Thesis

Awards

1st: Juan Pablo Pinzón

2nd: Hadi Niknahad

Committee

Dra. Maria del Carmen Domingo Aladrén

Dr. Josep Pegueroles Vallès

Bachelors

Students who complete their Bachelor's Degree studies during the 2024-2025 academic year and present their Final Degree Project

Awards

1st: Ferran Saigi

2nd: Oriol López Petit

3rd: Javier Marques Martínez

Committee

Dra. Isabel Martín Faus

Dra. Mónica Aguilar Igartua

CATEDRA CARISMATICA SPECIAL AWARD

Best presentation in the area of cybersecurity

Award

Jordi Domènech Fons