SISCOM – Smart Services for Information Systems and Communication Networks

Website: https://siscom.upc.edu/en
Location: Campus Nord, Building C3, C/ Jordi Girona 1-3, Barcelona 08034, Spain
Affiliation: Department of Network Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)

🧠 About

The SISCOM (Smart Services for Information Systems and Communication Networks) research group focuses on technologies to provide intelligent services for information services and communication networks. We teach and do research in topics related to privacy, performance evaluation of networks, wireless ad hoc and mesh networks, design of routing protocols, proposals to improve urban mobility, among others. Our research activities are funded by public research projects granted by the Spanish Government, the Catalan Government and the European Commission.

Social Networks: Follow us in Linkedin @siscom-upc and in X @SISCOM_UPC Contact: Mónica Aguilar Igartua – Associate Professor, Network Engineering, UPC. Email: monica.aguilar@upc.edu

🔬 Research Areas

🛰️ Communication Networks

We work on wireless networks, either with infrastructure or ad hoc and mesh, including vehicular and mesh networks. We design algorithms and AI-based models to improve their performance. Also, routing protocols are designed and evaluated to guarantee the quality of service required to support intelligent services. We also design proposals to improve urban mobility and to promote sustainable and active urban mobility.

🔐 Security & Privacy of information

We work on the development of information protection techniques, especially on the anonymization of databases to protect users' privacy when these data are to be published or shared with third parties. These techniques allow us to protect communications and personal information in data analysis processes. Also, we design privacy techniques for urban trajectories.

📌 Application Examples

Anonymization of medical databases, protection of user privacy in Web browsing, electronic voting, communication in wireless networks with/without infrastructure (vehicular networks, mesh networks, mobile adhoc networks), design of efficient routing protocols for wireless infrastructureless networks, personal networks, machine learning algorithms (smart services for electrical vehicles, routing protocols, quality of service, among others).

💼 Projects & Activities

The group participates in national and European research projects, such as:

European Projects

• 4I4U EIT Urban Mobility (2022): Promotes collaboration between citizens, academia, industry, and cities to foster future urban mobility solutions under the EIT Urban Mobility initiative.

• CIPSEC (2016–2018): Developed an innovative security framework to enhance the protection of critical infrastructures under the EU H2020 Secure Societies programme.

• ENS LYON (2017–2018): Focused on the design and evaluation of MAC protocols for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs).

Spanish Projects

• MultiMO (2025–2026): Develops multisectoral data spaces to support data-driven analysis and optimization of mandatory mobility patterns.

• DISCOVERY (2024–2027): Designs distributed and energy-efficient communication protocols with verifiable performance and integrated data privacy guarantees.

• MOBILYTICS (2022–2025): Develops anonymization technologies for privacy-preserving AI-based analytics of mobility data.

• COMPROMISE (2021–2025): Enhances communication protocols using machine learning while protecting sensitive data in networks and dynamic databases.

• Red Temática EVEREST (2020–2021): Advanced methodologies for performance evaluation and Quality of Experience (QoX) in telematic networks and services.

• MAGOS (2018–2020): Secure smart grid communications using open-source intelligence with emphasis on data privacy and reliability.

• Grup de Recerca Consolidat – SISCOM (2017 SGR 399): Consolidated research group project supporting smart services for information systems and communication networks.

• INRISCO (2015–2017): Incident monitoring in smart communities with focus on Quality of Service (QoS) and privacy.

• EMRISCO++ (2013–2014): European research dynamization action supporting international collaboration in smart community security research.

• EMRISCO (2013–2014): Emergency response in smart communities with integrated privacy and QoS mechanisms.

• Grup de Recerca Consolidat – Information Security Group (2014 SGR 1504): Consolidated research initiative focused on information security.

• CONSEQUENCE (2010–2012): Ensured continuity of service, security, and QoS in transportation communication systems.

• P2PSEC (2009–2011): Secure provision of services over peer-to-peer (P2P) networks.

• ITACA (2007–2009): Trust-based semantic annotation and community formation support in collaborative environments.

• SECCONET (2006–2008): Distributed platform for secure electronic commerce of digital contents.

• ARPA (2004–2006): Mechanisms for acquisition and revocation of privileges in authorization schemes.

• DISQET (2003–2005): Secure information distribution with Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees in telematic environments.

SISCOM members have also organized major academic events like MSWiM 2025 – ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems.

👥 People

The group includes faculty, researchers, and students from the Department of Network Engineering at UPC. Contact person:

• Mónica Aguilar Igartua – Associate Professor, Network Engineering, UPC
  Email: monica.aguilar@upc.edu

📄 Publications & Theses

Information on publications and master/PhD theses related to SISCOM’s research is available through the group’s website.

📍 Follow & Contact

• Twitter: @SISCOM_UPC
• Email: siscom.admin@mylist.upc.edu
• Address: Campus Nord, Building C3, C/ Jordi Girona 1-3, Barcelona 08034