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Dr. Xavier Costa-Pérez leads the Space and Terrestrial Systems (ASTRO) R&D at NEC Laboratories Europe. A globally recognized leader in his field, Dr. Costa-Pérez has been ranked among the “Top 2% of World Scientists” by Stanford for over 5 years and is featured on the Research.com “Best World Computer Scientists” list. His research spearheads the digital transformation of society through the convergence of Space and Mobile Networks together with Artificial Intelligence. His team consistently delivers impactful research, evidenced by publications in top-tier scientific venues and numerous awards for successful technology transfers. Notably, his innovations have been integrated into commercial mobile phones, base stations, and network management systems, and have spurred the creation of multiple start-ups. He is a recognized contributor to multiple standard specifications who actively participated in bodies such as IEEE 802.11, 802.16, WiFi Alliance, and 3GPP. He has also served on organizing committees for prominent conferences (e.g., AAAI, ACM MOBICOM, IEEE INFOCOM) and as an Editor for leading journals like IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM), as well as Elsevier Computer Communications (COMCOM). Dr. Costa-Pérez holds M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Telecommunications from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), receiving a national award for his doctoral thesis. He is the inventor of over 100 granted patents, some standard essential (SEP).
Group Involvement, NEC Laboratories Europe
Space and Terrestrial Systems
Research Interests
- Satellite and Terrestrial Reliable Systems
- Integrated Sensing and Communications
- Position, Navigation and Timing Systems (PNT)
- Unmanned Systems (UxV)
- Physical AI
Conferences
- Pau Baguer, Josep Xavier Salvat, Guillermo Encinas-Lago, Placido Mursia, Esteban Municio, Marco Rossanese, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Xavier Pérez Costa: Echoes: An Open RAN-Enabled System for Indoors Localization Using Smart Surfaces. IEEE Open J. Commun. Soc. 6: 7215-7232 (2025)
- Nikolaos Apostolakis, Marta Sierra-Obea, Marco Gramaglia, Jose A. Ayala-Romero, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Marco Fiore, Albert Banchs, Xavier Costa-Pérez: Quantum Computing in the RAN with Qu4Fec: Closing Gaps Towards Quantum-based FEC processors. Proc. ACM Meas. Anal. Comput. Syst. 9(2): 1-25 (2025)
- Adrian Lendinez Ibanez, Lanfranco Zanzi, Xi Li, Sandra Moreno, Guillem Garí, Christina C. Lessi, Vladimir Guroma, Renxi Qiu, Xavier Costa-Pérez: Experimental Evaluation of Radio-aware Semantic Map with 5G-Enabled Mobile Robots. IROS 2025: 18051-18057
- Fabio Maresca, Arnau Romero, Carmen Delgado, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Josep Paradells, Xavier Costa-Pérez: REACT: Multi Robot Energy-Aware Orchestrator for Indoor Search and Rescue Critical Tasks. ICRA 2025: 5445-5451
- Sai Pavan Deram, Marco Rossanese, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Syed Waqas Haider Shah, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Joerg Widmer, Xavier Costa-Pérez: RISENSE: Long-Range In-Band Wireless Control of Passive Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces. (MobiSys) 2025: 347-360
- Nikolaos Apostolakis, Marta Sierra-Obea, Marco Gramaglia, Jose A. Ayala-Romero, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Marco Fiore, Albert Banchs, Xavier Costa-Pérez: Quantum Computing in the RAN with Qu4Fec: Closing Gaps Towards Quantum-based FEC processors. Proc. ACM Meas. Anal. Comput. Syst. (SIGMETRICS) 9(2): 1-25 (2025)
- Fatih Aslan, Jose A. Ayala-Romero, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Xavier Costa-Pérez, George Iosifidis: FairRIC: Real-Time Fair Allocation in O-RAN with Shared Computing. INFOCOM 2025: 1-10
- J. Xavier Salvat Lozano, Jose A. Ayala-Romero, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Xavier Costa-Pérez: Kairos: Energy-Efficient Radio Unit Control for O-RAN via Advanced Sleep Modes. INFOCOM 2025: 1-10
- Jose A. Ayala-Romero, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Xavier Costa-Pérez: Risk-Aware Continuous Control with Neural Contextual Bandits. AAAI 2024: 20930-20938
- Leonardo Lo Schiavo, Gines Garcia-Aviles, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Marco Gramaglia, Marco Fiore, Albert Banchs, Xavier Costa-Pérez: CloudRIC: Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) Virtualization with Shared Heterogeneous Computing. MobiCom 2024: 558-572
- Fatih Aslan, George Iosifidis, Jose A. Ayala-Romero, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Xavier Costa-Pérez: Fair Resource Allocation in Virtualized O-RAN Platforms. Proc. ACM Meas. Anal. Comput. Syst. (SIGMETRICS) 8(1): 17:1-17:34 (2024)
- Oscar Adamuz-Hinojosa, Lanfranco Zanzi, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Xavier Costa-Pérez: ORANUS: Latency-tailored Orchestration via Stochastic Network Calculus in 6G O-RAN. INFOCOM 2024: 61-70
- Leonardo Lo Schiavo, Jose A. Ayala-Romero, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Marco Fiore, Xavier Costa-Pérez: YinYangRAN: Resource Multiplexing in GPU-Accelerated Virtualized RANs. INFOCOM 2024: 721-730
- Leonardo Lo Schiavo, Jose A. Ayala-Romero, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Marco Fiore, Xavier Costa-Pérez: YinYangRAN: Resource Multiplexing in GPU-Accelerated Virtualized RANs. INFOCOM 2024: 721-730
Journals
- Oscar Adamuz-Hinojosa, Lanfranco Zanzi, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Marco Di Renzo, Xavier Costa-Pérez: RIS Control Through the Lens of Stochastic Network Calculus: An O-RAN Framework for Delay-Sensitive 6G Applications. IEEE Trans. Wirel. Commun. 25: 13881-13898 (2026)
- Fabio Maresca, Francesco Devoti, Guillermo Encinas-Lago, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Josep Paradells, Xavier Costa-Pérez: Localization-Driven Multi-Robot Exploration for Indoor Search and Rescue. IEEE Open J. Commun. Soc. 7: 421-441 (2026)
- Arnau Romero, Carmen Delgado, Jana Baguer, Raúl Suárez, Xavier Costa-Pérez: Enhancing cellular-enabled collaborative robots planning through GNSS data for SAR scenarios. Comput. Commun. 247: 108376 (2026)
- Bouziane Brik, Hatim Chergui, Lanfranco Zanzi, Francesco Devoti, Adlen Ksentini, Muhammad Shuaib Siddiqui, Xavier Costa-Pérez, Christos V. Verikoukis: Explainable AI in 6G O-RAN: A Tutorial and Survey on Architecture, Use Cases, Challenges, and Future Research. IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials 27(5): 2826-2859 (2025)
- Placido Mursia, Francesco Devoti, Marco Rossanese, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Gabriele Gradoni, Marco Di Renzo, Xavier Costa-Pérez: T3DRIS: Advancing Conformal RIS Design Through In-Depth Analysis of Mutual Coupling Effects. IEEE Trans. Commun. 73(2): 889-903 (2025)
- Guillermo Encinas-Lago, Francesco Devoti, Marco Rossanese, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Marco Di Renzo, Xavier Costa-Pérez: COLoRIS: Localization-Agnostic Smart Surfaces Enabling Opportunistic ISAC in 6G Networks. IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput. 24(8): 6812-6826 (2025)
- Milan Groshev, Lanfranco Zanzi, Carmen Delgado, Xi Li, Antonio de la Oliva, Xavier Costa-Pérez: Energy-Aware Joint Orchestration of 5G and Robots: Experimental Testbed and Field Validation. IEEE Trans. Netw. Serv. Manag. 22(4): 3046-3059 (2025)
- Guillermo Encinas-Lago, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Henk Wymeersch, Marco Di Renzo, Xavier Costa-Pérez: RiLoCo: An ISAC-Oriented AI Solution to Build RIS-Empowered Networks. IEEE Trans. Wirel. Commun. 24(10): 8221-8235 (2025)
- Oscar Lasierra, Norbert Ludant, Gines Garcia-Aviles, Esteban Municio, Guevara Noubir, Antonio F. Skarmeta-Gómez, Xavier Costa-Pérez: Fact-Checking 5G Security: Bridging the Gap Between Expectations and Reality. IEEE Open J. Commun. Soc. 6: 6242-6257 (2025)
- Girma M. Yilma, Jose A. Ayala-Romero, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Xavier Costa-Pérez: TelecomRAG: Taming Telecom Standards with Retrieval Augmented Generation and LLMs. Comput. Commun. Rev. 54(3): 18-23 (2024)
- Andra Blaga, Federico Campolo, Maurizio Rea, Xavier Costa-Pérez: 3DSAR+: A Single-Drone 3D Cellular Search and Rescue Solution Leveraging 5G-NR. IEEE Open J. Commun. Soc. 5: 4808-4822 (2024)
- Federico Campolo, Andra Blaga, Maurizio Rea, Angel Lozano, Xavier Costa-Pérez: 5GNSS: Fusion of 5G-NR and GNSS Localization for Enhanced Positioning Accuracy and Reliability. IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol. 73(9): 13558-13568 (2024)
- Pau Baguer, Esteban Municio, Gines Garcia-Aviles, Xavier Costa-Pérez: Enabling Beyond-Visual-Line-of-Sight Drones Operation Over Open RAN 5G Networks With Slicing. IEEE Netw. 38(6): 163-169 (2024)
- Antonio Albanese, Francesco Devoti, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Marco Di Renzo, Albert Banchs, Xavier Costa-Pérez: ARES: Autonomous RIS Solution With Energy Harvesting and Self-Configuration Towards 6G. IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput. 23(12): 12006-12019 (2024)
- J. Xavier Salvat Lozano, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Xi Li, Xavier Costa-Pérez: AIRIC: Orchestration of Virtualized Radio Access Networks With Noisy Neighbours. IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun. 42(2): 432-445 (2024)
- Marco Rossanese, Placido Mursia, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Arash Asadi, Xavier Costa-Pérez: Open Experimental Measurements of Sub-6GHz Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces. IEEE Internet Comput. 28(2): 19-28 (2024)
- Pau Baguer, Girma M. Yilma, Esteban Municio, Gines Garcia-Aviles, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Marco Liebsch, Xavier Costa-Pérez: Attacking O-RAN Interfaces: Threat Modeling, Analysis and Practical Experimentation. IEEE Open J. Commun. Soc. 5: 4559-4577 (2024)
Connections
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XJtUWmkAAAAJ&hl=ca
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/xcosta/