Jordi Garcia Almiñana

Advanced Network Architectures Lab (CRAAX)

Department of Computer Architecture (DAC)

UPC BarcelonaTech, Spain

Associate Professor

Email: jordig@ac.upc.edu

Qualifications

1997 Ph.D., UPC BarcelonaTech, Spain, Computer Science

1991 M.S., UPC BarcelonaTech, Spain, Computer Science

Publications (Selected)

1. Souvik Sengupta, Jordi Garcia, Xavi Masip-Bruin. Essentiality of Managing the Resource Information in the Coordinated Fog-to-Cloud Paradigm. International Journal of Communication Systems, Vol. 33(10). Special Issue: Smart Communications for Autonomous Systems in Network Technologies. July 2020.
2. Xavi Masip-Bruin, Vitor Barbosa Souza, Eva Marín-Tordera, Guang-Jia Ren, Admela Jukan, Jordi Garcia. A Multidimensional Control Architecture for Combined Fog-to-Cloud Systems. Future of Information and Communications Conference (FICC), San Francisco, CA, March 2020.
3. Souvik Sengupta, Jordi Garcia, Xavi Masip-Bruin, Andrés Prieto. An Architectural Schema for Performance Prediction Using Machine Learning in the Fog-to-Cloud Paradigm. IEEE Annual Ubiquitous Computing Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON), New York, USA, October 2019.
4. Souvik Sengupta, Sarang Kahvazadeh, Xavi Masip-Bruin, Jordi Garcia. SFDDM: A Secure Distributed Database Management in Combined Fog-to-Cloud Systems. IEEE International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), Limassol, Cyprus, September 2019.
5. Jordi Garcia, Xavi Masip-Bruin, Yunsong Lu. The Progressive Mapping System Architecture for Global Resources Management. International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), Valencia, Spain, July 2019.
6. Jordi Garcia, Francesc Aguiló, Ester Simó, Marisa Zaragozà, X.Masip-Bruin, Yunsong Lu, Andrés Prieto, Joan Molina. A Preliminary Model for Optimal Load Distribution in Heterogeneous Smart Environments. IEEE International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR), Xi'an, China, May 2019.
7. Jordi Garcia, Ester Simó, Xavier Masip-Bruin, Eva Marín-Tordera, Sergi Sànchez-López. Do we really need cloud? Estimating the fog computing capacities in the city of Barcelona. Workshop on managed Fog-to-Cloud, as part of the 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), Zurich, Switzerland, November 2018.
8. Vitor Barbosa, Xavi Masip-Bruin, Eva Marín-Tordera, Sergi Sánchez-López, Jordi Garcia, Guang-Jia Ren, Admela Jukan, Ana Juan. Towards a Proper service Placement in Combined Fog-to-Cloud (F2C) Architectures. Future Generation Computer Systems, Vol. 87, October 2018.
9. Souvik Sengupta, Jordi Garcia, Xavi Masip-Bruin. Essentiality of Resource and Service-Task Characterization in the Coordinated Fog-to-Cloud Paradigm. IEEE International Conference on Smart Communications in Network Technologies (SaCoNeT), El Oued, Algeria, October 2018.
10. Xavi Masip-Bruin, Eva Marín-Tordera, Ana Juan-Ferrer, Anna Queralt, Admela Jukan, Jordi Garcia, Daniele Lezzi, Jens Jensen, Cristovao Cordeiro, Alexander Leckey, Antonio Salis, Denis Guilhot, Matic Cankar. mF2C: Towards a Coordinated Management of the IoT-fog-cloud Continuum. 4th ACM MobiHoc Workshop on Experiences with the Design and Implementation of Smart Objects (SmartObjects 2018), Los Angeles, CA, June 2018.
11. Amir Sinaeepourfard, Jordi Garcia, Xavi Masip-Bruin and Eva Marín-Tordera. Fog-to-Cloud (F2C) Data Management for Smart Cities. Future Technologies Conference (FTC 2017), Vancouver, Canada, November 2017.
12. Eva Marín-Tordera, Xavi Masip-Bruin, Jordi Garcia, Admela Jukan, Guang-Jie Ren and Jiafeng Zhu. Do we all know what a fog node is? Current trends towards an open definition. Computer Communications, Vol. 109:117-130, September 2017.
13. Amir Sinaeepourfard, Jordi Garcia, Xavi Masip-Bruin and Eva Marín-Tordera. A Novel Architecture for Efficient Fog to Cloud Data Management in Smart Cities. 37th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2017), Atlanta, GA, June 2017.
14. Amir Sinaeepourfard, Jordi Garcia, Xavi Masip-Bruin and Eva Marín-Tordera. Towards a Comprehensive Data LifeCycle model for Big Data Environments. 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT 2016), Shanghai, China, December 2016.