Broadband Communications Systems and Architectures Research Group

The research group started in 1992 and belongs to the Computer Architecture Department of the Tecnical University of Catalunya (UPC BarcelonaTECH). The University has been granted as Campus of International Excellence (Barcelona Knowledge Campus) and the Computer Architecture Department holds a PhD Program awarded by a Quality Mention with Honors by the Spanish Ministry since 2003. 

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The research group is recognised both as a research group of the UPC and as a consolidated research group of the Catalan Goverment Generalitat de Catalunya.

  • 2005SGR-0481, for the period 2005-2008
  • 2009SGR-1140, for the period 2009-2013
  • 2014SGR-1427, for the period 2014-2016
  • 2017SGR-1037, for the period 2017-2021

As member of CER UPC IDEAI is recognized as a consolidated reserach group:  2021SGR-01532.

The CBA (BroadBand Communications) group focuses its research activities in the field of computer networks as well as communication technologies. The main goal of the group is to understand and anticipate the future requirements of networks and meet them both through applied and fundamental research. The group carries research in the following topics: cybersecurity, new Internet architectures, optical networks, low-energy networks, traffic monitoring and analysis, autonomous networks based on machine learning, network-on-chip, quality of service as well as nanonetworks. The group has an extensive record of establishing collaborations with top-tier international research teams, both in the academic and industrial fields.

All the publications carried out by the CBA research group can be found here.

You can access the group's official website, as it appeared until 2023, through this link.

Members of the research group participate in the following initiatives.

In January 2021 the group joined the joint research center at UPC CER IDEAI.

In 2020 a group of CBA researchers setup the Barcelona Neural Networking Center (BNN-UPC)

In 2008 a group of CBA researchers started this initiative: The NaNoNetworking Center in Catalonia (N3Cat).

Members

Researchers

Technical Staff

  • Albert López Brescó (albert.lopez at ac.upc.edu)

The Broadband Communications Systems and Architectures Research Group (CBA) was a founding member of the Advanced Broadband Communications Center (CCABA) of the UPC. CCABA started its activities in January 1994.
In January 2021, after establishing new goals and a new structure, CBA ceased its membership.