Xavier Costa‐Pérez

8.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
198 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Xavier Costa‐Pérez is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Xavier Costa‐Pérez has authored 198 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 147 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 119 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 24 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Xavier Costa‐Pérez's work include Software-Defined Networks and 5G (72 papers), Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (44 papers) and IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (29 papers). Xavier Costa‐Pérez is often cited by papers focused on Software-Defined Networks and 5G (72 papers), Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (44 papers) and IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (29 papers). Xavier Costa‐Pérez collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Germany and United Kingdom. Xavier Costa‐Pérez's co-authors include Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Albert Banchs, Hannes Hartenstein, Christian Bettstetter, Andrés García‐Saavedra, Konstantinos Samdanis, Marco Gramaglia, Dario Bega, Gustavo de Veciana and Pablo Caballero and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, IEEE Access and IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.

In The Last Decade

Xavier Costa‐Pérez

185 papers receiving 5.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Stochastic Properties of the Random Waypoint Mobility Model

2004 611 citations Xavier Costa‐Pérez et al. profile →
From network sharing to multi-tenancy: The 5G network slice broker

2016 375 citations Xavier Costa‐Pérez, Vincenzo Sciancalepore et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xavier Costa‐Pérez Spain	40	4.6k	3.2k	476	330	297	198	5.7k
Luiz A. DaSilva United States	34	4.3k 0.9×	2.9k 0.9×	496 1.0×	465 1.4×	278 0.9×	248	5.5k
Frank H. P. Fitzek Germany	33	4.6k 1.0×	3.4k 1.1×	439 0.9×	288 0.9×	385 1.3×	578	6.0k
Konstantinos Samdanis Germany	23	3.6k 0.8×	2.2k 0.7×	307 0.6×	254 0.8×	610 2.1×	76	4.3k
Gang Feng China	40	4.4k 1.0×	4.1k 1.3×	489 1.0×	582 1.8×	543 1.8×	251	6.4k
Daquan Feng China	24	2.4k 0.5×	3.1k 1.0×	434 0.9×	431 1.3×	429 1.4×	89	4.0k
Chuan Heng Foh United Kingdom	29	2.9k 0.6×	1.9k 0.6×	387 0.8×	304 0.9×	340 1.1×	195	3.7k
Fabrizio Granelli Italy	30	2.4k 0.5×	1.9k 0.6×	273 0.6×	410 1.2×	383 1.3×	259	3.5k
Dario Sabella Italy	19	3.0k 0.7×	3.0k 0.9×	247 0.5×	249 0.8×	553 1.9×	53	4.3k
Xiangming Wen China	27	2.3k 0.5×	2.3k 0.7×	204 0.4×	470 1.4×	221 0.7×	367	3.6k
Holger Karl Germany	29	4.2k 0.9×	2.4k 0.8×	260 0.5×	157 0.5×	403 1.4×	249	4.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Xavier Costa‐Pérez

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xavier Costa‐Pérez

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All Works

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Devoti, Francesco, et al.. (2025). COLoRIS: Localization-Agnostic Smart Surfaces Enabling Opportunistic ISAC in 6G Networks. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 24(8). 6812–6826. 3 indexed citations

Sciancalepore, Vincenzo, et al.. (2025). RiLoCo: An ISAC-Oriented AI Solution to Build RIS-Empowered Networks. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 24(10). 8221–8235.

Habibi, Mohammad Asif, et al.. (2024). Unlocking O-RAN Potential: How Management Data Analytics Enhances SMO Capabilities?. IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society. 5. 4710–4730. 5 indexed citations

Ayala‐Romero, Jose A., et al.. (2024). YinYangRAN: Resource Multiplexing in GPU-Accelerated Virtualized RANs. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 721–730. 4 indexed citations

Ayala‐Romero, Jose A., et al.. (2024). Mean-Field Multi-Agent Contextual Bandit for Energy-Efficient Resource Allocation in vRANs. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 911–920. 3 indexed citations

Municio, Esteban, et al.. (2024). Attacking O-RAN Interfaces: Threat Modeling, Analysis and Practical Experimentation. IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society. 5. 4559–4577. 5 indexed citations

Lemić, Filip, et al.. (2024). Insights from the Design Space Exploration of Flow-Guided Nanoscale Localization. QRU Quaderns de Recerca en Urbanisme. 103–108. 2 indexed citations

Ayala‐Romero, Jose A., et al.. (2024). MemorAI: Energy-Efficient Last-Level Cache Memory Optimization for Virtualized RANs. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 25–30. 2 indexed citations

Lemić, Filip, Jorge Torres Gómez, Esteban Municio, et al.. (2024). Toward Standardized Performance Evaluation of Flow-Guided Nanoscale Localization. IEEE Transactions on Molecular Biological and Multi-Scale Communications. 11(1). 116–127.

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Albanese, Antonio, et al.. (2024). A Cost-Effective RISs Deployment to Abate the Coverage Problem in B5G Networks. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 23(10). 15276–15290. 4 indexed citations

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Mursia, Placido, et al.. (2024). Open Experimental Measurements of Sub-6GHz Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces. IEEE Internet Computing. 28(2). 19–28. 4 indexed citations

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Mursia, Placido, Francesco Devoti, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, et al.. (2024). T3DRIS: Advancing Conformal RIS Design Through In-Depth Analysis of Mutual Coupling Effects. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 73(2). 889–903. 4 indexed citations

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Municio, Esteban, et al.. (2024). Enabling Beyond-Visual-Line-of-Sight Drones Operation Over Open RAN 5G Networks With Slicing. IEEE Network. 38(6). 163–169.

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Hassani, Hamed, Xuewen Qian, Marco Di Renzo, et al.. (2023). Optimization of RIS-Aided MIMO—A Mutually Coupled Loaded Wire Dipole Model. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. 13(3). 726–730. 14 indexed citations

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Devoti, Francesco, Placido Mursia, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, & Xavier Costa‐Pérez. (2023). Taming Aerial Communication with Flight-Assisted Smart Surfaces in the 6G Era: Novel Use Cases, Requirements, and Solutions. IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine. 18(3). 38–47. 3 indexed citations

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Song, Jian, Marco Di Renzo, Alessio Zappone, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, & Xavier Costa‐Pérez. (2020). System-Level Optimization in Poisson Cellular Networks: An Approach Based on the Generalized Benders Decomposition. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. 9(10). 1773–1777. 5 indexed citations

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Caballero, Pablo, Albert Banchs, Gustavo de Veciana, & Xavier Costa‐Pérez. (2019). Network Slicing Games: Enabling Customization in Multi-Tenant Mobile Networks. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 27(2). 662–675. 93 indexed citations

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Bega, Dario, Albert Banchs, Marco Gramaglia, Xavier Costa‐Pérez, & Peter Rost. (2018). CARES: Computation-Aware Scheduling in Virtualized Radio Access Networks. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 17(12). 7993–8006. 30 indexed citations

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Bega, Dario, Marco Gramaglia, Carlos J. Bernardos, Albert Banchs, & Xavier Costa‐Pérez. (2017). Toward the network of the future: From enabling technologies to 5G concepts. Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies. 28(8). 27 indexed citations

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Caballero, Pablo, Albert Banchs, Gustavo de Veciana, & Xavier Costa‐Pérez. (2017). Network slicing games: Enabling customization in multi-tenant networks. LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas). 81 indexed citations

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