Miguel PdL Profile Page

Profile

Overview of my professional life and education.

I’m currently Director of Distributed Edge Intelligence in the Office of the CTO at VMware, were I’m a member of the Distributed Edge team. Here I’m engaging in research & co-innovation to unravel the complexities of distributed adaptive systems anticipated with the ever-increasing amalgamation of cloud, wireless and internet industries as driven by the rise of 5G/6G, Edge Compute and AI.

Previously I was a Principal Investigator at the Walton Institute (aka TSSG), working on communication software systems and Internet technologies. In this role I was responsible for technology foresight, software process & quality and oversight of the execution of research and innovation projects.

I’ve been a co-founder and part-time CTO at Kodacall were I worked with a focus on software development for mobile platforms, messaging & realtime middleware technologies.

I have over 25+ years experience in the ICT industry and have participated in over 40 national and international research - innovation projects, conducting research into future networking, network management, smart grid and living labs.

I’ve had the pleasure of contributing to standards activities, recently active in the Telecom Infrastructure Project (TIP) End-2-End Network Slicing project group. I’ve also been active in TM Forum, Internet Society, and 3GPP working groups.

Working Background

I have lead and managed over 40 research projects and in this time co-authored over 38 research papers in the ICT themes of future networking, communication network management, smart grid and living labs.

Prior to my time in the TSSG, during 2002 I was Chief Technical Director in a communications security start-up company called SecureLeon.

I also previously worked for Motorola Inc. joining them in 1996. Initially based in Cork, Ireland I worked on the mobile switching center which was used worldwide in mobile analogue (AMPS) and mobile digital (CDMA) deployments. In 1999 I moved to Motorola USA to work on the Aspira project, the first software system to carry out mobile VoIP calls over CDMA and GSM systems towards Netmeeting on the PC desktop.

I have been heavily involved in commercialising research, in the area of web realtime communication.

Research Projects

I’ve spent many years (since 2004) collaborating with researchers across Europe and further beyond on European Union Framework Programme ICT research projects. This has offered me fantastic opportunities to explore new ideas for mobile security, mobile network design and really testing proof of concepts.
I’ve played the role of lone researcher (2003) lost within an EU project to today were I have the pleasure of being project co-ordinator of PRISTINE, a project were I get to work with 40 other researchers on exploring the programability of networks based on Recursive InterNetwork Architecture (RINA).

There have been a number of distinct research lines I have followed over the last number of years and a summary of projects along these lines are given below.

Future Networking

This research theme is about combining a set of radical network architectural approaches, building on my strong mobile and wireless background, to design inter-operable and complementary families of new inter network architectures.

I’m project coordinator for the project :-

FP7 ICT PRISTINE (2014 - 2016)

In this area I have also been the TSSG Principle Investigator for:-

FP7 ICT IRINA (2013 - 2016)
FP7 ICT 4WARD (2008 - 2010)
FP7 ICT Perimeter (2008 - 2011)
FP6 IST ENABLE (2006 - 2008)

and participated in the project:

FP6 IST Daidalos I & Daidalos II (2003 - 2006)

Smart Grid

In the research theme of Smart Grid I lead an investigation into the ICT management of smart charging stations being used in the roll out of Electric Mobility (i.e. eCars).