2026 Xavier Costa-Perez: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	39	9831	9550	155	153	122	5844

Overview

Xavier Costa-Perez is affiliated with the Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats in Spain. Their research spans areas within engineering and computer science, with a focus on computer networks and communications as well as electrical and electronic engineering.

Their work concentrates on multiple specialized topics including software-defined networks and 5G, advanced wireless communication technologies, and IoT and edge/fog computing. Further areas of study encompass advanced MIMO systems optimization, advanced antenna and metasurface technologies, indoor and outdoor localization technologies, and wireless body area networks.

Recent publications by Xavier Costa-Perez include:

"O-RAN: Disrupting the Virtualized RAN Ecosystem" (2021) in IEEE Communications Standards Magazine
"Adversarial Attacks Against Deep Learning-Based Network Intrusion Detection Systems and Defense Mechanisms" (2022) in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
"Zero Touch Management: A Survey of Network Automation Solutions for 5G and 6G Networks" (2022) in IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
"RISMA: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Enabling Beamforming for IoT Massive Access" (2020) in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
"5Growth: An End-to-End Service Platform for Automated Deployment and Management of Vertical Services over 5G Networks" (2021) in IEEE Communications Magazine

Their frequent co-authors are:

Vincenzo Sciancalepore
Andrés García-Saavedra
Jose A. Ayala-Romero
Albert Banchs
Francesco Devoti

Xavier Costa-Perez has published extensively in venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Best Publications

From network sharing to multi-tenancy: The 5G network slice broker

Konstantinos Samdanis;Xavier Costa-Perez;Vincenzo Sciancalepore

564
Citations
Radio access network virtualization for future mobile carrier networks

X. Costa-Perez;J. Swetina;Tao Guo;R. Mahindra

360
Citations
Mobile traffic forecasting for maximizing 5G network slicing resource utilization

Vincenzo Sciancalepore;Konstantinos Samdanis;Xavier Costa-Perez;Dario Bega

309
Citations
Optimising 5G infrastructure markets: The business of network slicing

Dario Bega;Marco Gramaglia;Albert Banchs;Vincenzo Sciancalepore

198
Citations
DeepCog: Cognitive Network Management in Sliced 5G Networks with Deep Learning

Dario Bega;Marco Gramaglia;Marco Fiore;Albert Banchs

196
Citations
Network Slicing Games: Enabling Customization in Multi-Tenant Mobile Networks

Pablo Caballero;Albert Banchs;Gustavo De Veciana;Xavier Costa-Perez

193
Citations
O-RAN: Disrupting the Virtualized RAN Ecosystem

Andres Garcia-Saavedra;Xavier Costa-Perez

183
Citations
Adversarial Attacks Against Deep Learning-Based Network Intrusion Detection Systems and Defense Mechanisms

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167
Citations
Network slicing games: Enabling customization in multi-tenant networks

Pablo Caballero;Albert Banchs;Gustavo de Veciana;Xavier Costa-Perez

160
Citations
Multi-Tenant Radio Access Network Slicing: Statistical Multiplexing of Spatial Loads

Pablo Caballero;Albert Banchs;Gustavo de Veciana;Xavier Costa-Perez

159
Citations
Network Slicing for Guaranteed Rate Services: Admission Control and Resource Allocation Games

Pablo Caballero;Albert Banchs;Gustavo de Veciana;Xavier Costa-Perez

149
Citations
5G-Crosshaul: An SDN/NFV Integrated Fronthaul/Backhaul Transport Network Architecture

Xavier Costa-Perez;Andres Garcia-Saavedra;Xi Li;Thomas Deiss

128
Citations
FluidRAN: Optimized vRAN/MEC Orchestration

Andres Garcia-Saavedra;Xavier Costa-Perez;Douglas J. Leith;George Iosifidis

115
Citations
How Should I Slice My Network?: A Multi-Service Empirical Evaluation of Resource Sharing Efficiency

Cristina Marquez;Marco Gramaglia;Marco Fiore;Albert Banchs

114
Citations
RL-NSB: Reinforcement Learning-Based 5G Network Slice Broker

Vincenzo Sciancalepore;Xavier Costa-Perez;Albert Banchs

113
Citations
A Machine Learning Approach to 5G Infrastructure Market Optimization

Dario Bega;Marco Gramaglia;Albert Banchs;Vincenzo Sciancalepore

113
Citations
Overbooking network slices through yield-driven end-to-end orchestration

Josep Xavier Salvat;Lanfranco Zanzi;Andres Garcia-Saavedra;Vincenzo Sciancalepore

105
Citations
5G-TRANSFORMER: Slicing and Orchestrating Transport Networks for Industry Verticals

Antonio de la Oliva;Xi Li;Xavier Costa-Perez;Carlos J. Bernardos

101
Citations
DeepCog: Optimizing Resource Provisioning in Network Slicing With AI-Based Capacity Forecasting

Dario Bega;Marco Gramaglia;Marco Fiore;Albert Banchs

93
Citations
5G-Crosshaul Network Slicing: Enabling Multi-Tenancy in Mobile Transport Networks

Xi Li;Ramon Casellas;Giada Landi;Antonio de la Oliva

81
Citations
Joint Optimization of Edge Computing Architectures and Radio Access Networks

Andres Garcia-Saavedra;George Iosifidis;Xavier Costa-Perez;Douglas J. Leith

73
Citations
Multi-Tenant Radio Access Network Slicing: Statistical Multiplexing of Spatial Loads

P. Caballero;A. Banchs;G. de Veciana;X. Costa-Perez

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Vincenzo Sciancalepore NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH

Albert Banchs Carlos III University of Madrid

Marco Fiore IMDEA Networks

George Iosifidis Delft University of Technology

Gustavo de Veciana The University of Texas at Austin

Carlos J. Bernardos Carlos III University of Madrid

Hans D. Schotten Technical University of Kaiserslautern

Douglas J. Leith Trinity College Dublin

David Grace University of York

Dimitra Simeonidou University of Bristol

External Links

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