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Overview
Miguel Ponce de Leon is the Competence Centre head for the Communication Infrastructure Management (CIM) centre, a unit of the Telecommunications Software & Systems Group (TSSG), a research group which focuses on telecommunications software services management and Internet technologies. The CIM centre is currently staffed to 35 people, which is made up of Primary Investigators, Senior Researchers and PhD / MSc students.
Current Research: In the area of the Future Internet Miguel is contributing to ICT 4WARD which is a project creating an "Architecture and Design for the Future Internet" and in doing so aims to increase the competitiveness of the European networking industry and to improve the quality of life for European citizens by creating a family of dependable and interoperable networks providing direct and ubiquitous access to information. In the area of Communication Network Management, Miguel is participating in a number of EU FP7 projects. ICT EFIPSANS aims to expose the features in IPv6 protocol(s) that can be exploited or extended for the purposes of designing and building autonomic networks and services. This will involve the production of standardisable, protocol-agnostic Autonomic Behaviour Specifications (ABs) for selected diverse networking environments. ICT AutoI will design and develop a self-managing virtual resource overlay that can span across heterogeneous networks, support service mobility, quality of service and reliability. This overlay will self-manage based on the business-driven service goals changes (service context) and resource environment changes (resource context). Accordingly, AutoI, suggests a transition from a service agnostic Internet to service-aware network resources by means of Virtualising network resources and Policy-Based Management techniques to describe and control the internal service logic, utilising Ontology-based information and data models to facilitate the Internet service deployment in terms of programmable networks facilities supporting NGN. In the area of Living Labs Miguel is looking to the ground work for more elaborate and distributed prototyping, testing, and validation facilities with the:
This activity is facilitated through the ICT PanLabs II project, and Miguel acts as an end-user for the ICT Federica project while also actively supporting the FIRE programme and community. In the area of IP Mobility, Miguel is managing a team of researchers that are looking to the underlying network infrastructures over which next generation services will be delivered. With the emergence of IP as the neutral transport of choice for next generation networks, the related issues of IP Mobility and Network Reliability are being explored. In the area of Security, Miguel manages a team of researchers that are looking at the many types of threats to service information, such as viruses, credit card fraud, infringement of private life, economic espionage, hacking and big brother monitoring, which can be propagated to the end-user. This team are developing a trusted and dependable security framework with a consistent level of trust and security in mobile, heterogeneous networks. Projects here include ICT ThinkTrust & ICT IncoTrust. Past Projects: FP6 IST Daidalos The focus of IST Daidalos was to develop and demonstrate an open architecture based on a common network protocol (IPv6). The architecture integrates complementary network technologies to provide pervasive and user-centred access to these services, and develops optimized signalling system for communication and management support in these networks. Miguel's role was to provide security research to assist the project in making key security and privacy architecture decisions and the provision of testing expertise for the project.FP6 IST ENABLE The goal of IST ENABLE was to research, develop, test, integrate and evaluate mechanisms and technologies for the deployment of efficient and operational mobility as a service in large scale IPv6 network environments, taking into account also the transition scenario from IPv4. Miguel's role was to facilitate the integration of heterogeneous access infrastructures to deliver ubiquitous mobility in an efficient and cost-effective way and to participate in the research for the evolution towards a fully mobile Internet. FP6 IST CoreLabs The overall objective of the IST CoreLabs CA is to achieve a co-ordination of activities towards the establishment of co-creative Living Labs as the foundation of a Common European Innovation System on several levels. Miguel's role in this project was to provide leadership in the identification of the innovative aspects of a network of Living Labs including defining the technical and organisational pre-requisites and requirements necessary for the creation of a European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) and also the specification of a suitable validation approach. FP6 IST BrainBridges The IST BrainBridges project coordinated the research efforts of the New Working Environments area by bringing together key decision makers, programme makers and research organisations to help better understand eCollaboration activities at a European level, in order to shape a European Research Area on this domain. Miguel's role in this project was to provide the “technological aspects and requirements” for a European CWE Framework Description as per the deliverable “Book of Visions” Celtic Madeira The vision of Madeira was to provide new technologies for a logically meshed Network Management System that: Can manage networks with dynamic and transient network elements, Facilitate the deployment of self managed services, Scale to manage large networks, Can seamlessly manage heterogeneous networks. Miguel role in this project was to lead the Madeira Modelling activities. An Model Driven Architecture (MDA) approach was applied to capture the complexity of the required management tasks for a distributed network. This takes a “top-down” strategy by defining the high-level business case which then ultimately leads to a specification of management information and behaviour for network elements. FP6 IST SEINIT The overall objective of the Security Expert INITiative (SEINIT) project is to ensure a trusted and dependable information security framework, which is ubiquitous, working across multiple devices and diverse networks, being organisation independent (inter-operable) and centred around the end-user. Miguel's role was to lead a research team in looking at Trust Management. FP6 Security Miguel also contributed actively to the IST SecurIST and IST ESFORS projects.FP5 IST OPIUM Research validation through test case design and verification of end-to-end service mobility, interoperability and roaming solutions through the interconnection of open middleware platforms based on OSA/Parlay. Professional Links Member of Engineers Ireland (IEI) Member of IEEE Communication Society Member of IEEE Engineering Management Society Member of Federation of Telecommunications Engineers of the European Community (FITCE) Conferences Technical Programme Committee member of MATA 2005 Technical Programme Committee member and Demonstration Chair of TridentCom 2007 General Chair of TridentCom 2008 Publications: M. Johnsson, J. Huusko, T. Frantti, F-U Andersen, T-M-T. Nguyen, M. Ponce de Leon, Towards a New Architectural Framework – The Nth Stratum Concept, MobiMedia 2008, July 2008 M. Söllner, C. Görg, K. Pentikousis, J. Mª Cabero Lopez, M. Ponce de Leon, P. Bertin, Mobility Scenarios for the Future Internet: the 4WARD approach, WPMC 2008, Sept 2008 Christopher Foley, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Eamonn Power, Miguel Ponce de Leon, Dmitri Botvich, Dominique Dudkowski, Giorgio Nunzi, and Chiara Mingardi, A Framework for In-Network Management in Heterogeneous Future Communication Networks, MACE 2008, Sept. 2008 M. Ponce de Leon, C. Fahy, Technology Platform for a European Network of Living Labs, Living Labs in Europe – A new approach for human centric innovation in service and business development, Book Chapter, Feb. 2008. M. Ponce de Leon, Karl A. Hribernik, Mats Eriksson, Virtual Laboratory Environments – through the infrastructure of the Living Labs, Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations, Book Chapter, Feb 2008. C. Fahy, M. Ponce De Leon, S. van der Meer, Modelling Behaviour and Distribution for the Management of Next Generation Networks, Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies and Autonomic Computing, Book Chapter, 2008. C. Fahy, M. Ponce De Leon, A. Stahlbrost, H. Schaffers,P. Hongisto, CoreLabs Services of Living Labs and their Networks, eChallenges 2007, Oct 2007. F. Cleary Grant, M. Ponce De Leon, Large Scale Research Project, Daidalos Evaluation Framework, The European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation (ECIME) 2007, Sept. 2007. M Ponce de Leon, W. Yao, M. Angel Diaz, Scenarios Designed for the Verification of Mobile IPv6 Enabling Technologies, Federation of Telecommunications Engineers of the European Community (FITCE) Congress 2007, Aug. 2007. F Cleary Grant, M. Ponce de Leon, Daidalos Framework for Successful Testbed Integration, Tridentcom 2007, May 2007. M. Ponce de Leon, F. Cleary, Marta GARCÍA MORENO, Ana SOBRINO JULAR, Antonio ROMERO VICENTE, Mark Roddy, Paul Ryan, Czeslaw Jedrzejek, Large scale interoperability, Integrating the Daidalos project, eChallenges 2006, Oct 2006. M. Ponce de Leon, M. Eriksson, S. Balasubramaniam, W. Donnelly, Creating a distributed mobile networking testbed environment - through the Living Labs approach, Proceedings of 2nd International IEEE/Create-Net Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities (TridentCom), Barcelona, Spain, March, 2006 J. McGibney, M. PoncedeLeon, J. Ronan, Security for Heterogeneous Mobile Network Services, eChallenges, Ljubljana, Slovenia, October 2005. J. McGibney, J. Ronan, M. Ponce de Leon, Securing Mobile Services, Euro mGov 2005, Brighton, UK, July 2005. Demonstrations and Outreach:Standards: Miguel has participated in working groups at:
Education: Miguel Ponce de Leon is a graduate from the Waterford Institute of Technology where by 1996 he held a Bachelor of Technology Honours Degree in Electronic Engineering. Past Experience:Between 1996-2002 Miguel worked for Motorola Ireland & Motorola USA, were he designed, developed and tested core call processing modules for Analog, CDMA, GPRS & 3G UMTS communication systems. He was also part of the field deployment teams for these systems in Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Israel, the UK and the Philippines. |
