Leandro Navarro Moldes Associate Professor Department of Computer Architecture Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya References: ACM DL, Google Scholar [ Bio/CV | Research | Teaching | Publications/Talks | Contact ]

Generally, I am interested in distributed systems, collaborative systems, scalable Internet services, Grid and Peer-to-Peer systems, economics based algorithms and systems applied to grids and peer-to-peer, collaborative learning and networking. I am part of the Distributed Systems group that I coordinate as part of the CNDS group. I have a number of research projects brewing, including:

• Coordination of the FIRE EU Large-scale integrating project (IP) CONFINE on "Community Networks Testbed for the Future Internet" (10/2011-9/2015)
• Coordination of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate in Distributed Computing EMJD-DC (a 5 year contract starting in 2011/2012)
• Coordination of the national research project Delfin: Self-adapting distributed systems for the Future Internet (TIN2010-20140-C03-01)
• Principal Investigator (PI) for Planetlab at UPC.

Other projects that I've been involved with in the past include:

• Grid4All: Grid4All aims at enabling domestic users, non-profit organisations such as schools, and small enterprises, to share their resources and to access massive Grid resources when needed, envisioning a future in which access to resources is democratised, readily available, cooperative, and inexpensive.
• SORMA: Development of methods and tools for an efficient market-based allocation of resources, through a self-organizing resource management system, using market-driven models supported by extensions for Grid infrastructures. IST European Project (2006-2009).
• P2PGrid: A national integrated project on several aspects of large scale systems.
• Catnets:  Evaluation of the Catallaxy paradigm for decentralized operation of dynamic application networks. FET IST European Project (2004-2007).
• Catnet: Catallactic mechanisms for the deployment of application networks on the Internet. (3/2002-3/2003)
• CRAC: Compartición de Recursos para Aprendizaje Cooperativo (also known as GPPMCLE: Grid and Peer-to-Peer Middleware for Cooperative Learning Environments). MCYT National project (UPC, UOC, UVA) (2002-2005).
• Cosaco: Components for Cooperative Learning. CICYT National project (UVA, UPC) (2001-2003).
• MWeb: Distribution of Web Documents to Internet Digital Libraries
• Comic: Computer-based Mechanisms of Interaction in Cooperative Work.
• EPITELIO: a project for Social and Economic Integration of Citizens in Europe.
• MOCCA: a research on environments for CSCW systems.
• MSC: Muti-Site Computing. An experiment on High-Performance Computing and Networking for SME and Education.

I coordinate the participation of UPC in the Erasmus Mundus European Master in Distributed Computing (EMDC) (local info) (general info)

Courses I am currently teaching:

• Distributed Systems - an introductory course (master of research program and the EMDC) on principles for Distributed Systems.
• Decentralized Systems - an advanced course on Decentralized Systems. (2 lectures only)
• Scalable Distributed Systems - an advanced course on Scalable Distributed Systems.

Courses I have taught:

• APDA - Advanced Programming and Distributed Applications: a master's course of advanced topics on programming distributed applications.
• PXCSO - Projects in Computer Networks and Operating Systems: a hands on, project based course on servers and networks.
• SODX - Distributed and Networked Operating Systems: a course on advanced topics and applications of distributed systems.
• XC - Computer Networks: an introductory undergraduate course on computer networks.
• IO - Introduction to Computing: an introductory undergraduate course on computer architecture and programming (C language).
• AAD - Architecture of Distributed Applications: an introductory graduate course on the principles of distributed applications on the Internet.
• CASO - Advanced Course on Operating Systems : a course on advanced topics of distributed operating systems.

I work with the following graduate students: (PhD. students with accepted Thesis project)

• Xavier Leon
• Roc Messeguer

Former students (with PhD. degree):

• Rene Brunner, 2011, Trade-off Among Timeliness, Messages and Accuracy for Large-Scale Information Management (co-supervised with Felix Freitag)
• Pablo Chacín, 2011, A Middleware Framework for Self-Adaptive Large Scale Distributed Services
• Fernando Rodríguez Haro, 2009, Autonomous Management in VM-based Resource Providers (co-supervised with Felix Freitag)
• José Mitre, 2005, Protocolo peer-to-peer para redes de colaboración científica (Peer-to-peer protocol for scientific collaboration networks)
• Oscar Ardaiz, 2004, Application Network Deployment in the Internet
• Joan Manuel Marquès, 2003, LaCOLLA: una infraestructura autònoma i autoorganitzada per facilitar la col.laboració (LaCOLLA: an autonomous and self-organized infrastructure to facilitate collaboration)
• Jesús Acosta, 2003, Algoritmos de consistencia rápida orientados por la demanda en sistemas distribuídos de gran escala (Fast consistency demand-driven algorithms for large-scale distributed systems)
• Victor Sosa, 2002, Arquitectura para la distribución de documentos en un sistema distribuído a gran escala (A large-scale distributed architecture for document distribution)
• Claudio Righetti, 2000, Fallos de Escalabilidad en Internet (Scalability problems in the Internet architecture)
• Gerard Rodríguez, 1999, Federation mechanisms for large scale cooperative systems

Leandro Navarro joined the Computer Architecture Department of UPC as an associate professor in 1988, after receiving his graduate degree on Telecommunication Engineering from UPC.
He received his Ph.D. from UPC under Professor Manuel Medina in 1992. Since 1985, he is working at the Computer Architecture Department (Departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors).
Leandro's research interests include the design of scalable and cooperative Internet services and applications.
He is member of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) (SIGGroup, SIGComm), APC (Association for Progressive Communications) (Council member), IFIP TC6 WG6.4 (International Federation of Information Processing) (TC6-WG6.4 member), CCD (Centre de Cooperació per al Desenvolupament-UPC) (Council member), IEEE (Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers) (Computer Society, Communications Society).
He was a founding member of Pangea, a NGO providing Internet services to not-for-profit organisations and social movements, founding member of two spin-off companies: Espais Telemàtics S.L., and Rededia S.L.. He is author of the national report on Spain for the Global Information Society Watch since 2007.