Joao F. Santos
Software-defined Wireless Communications
Software-defined Wireless Communications
My expertise in wireless communications and mobile networks focuses on innovative uses of network programmability to design more flexible, intelligent, and resilient communication systems. My research develops adaptive 6G networks that autonomously reconfigure their resources, functions, and topologies to withstand internal and external threats, e.g., conflicts, failures, cyberattacks, and extreme weather events, ensuring reliable connectivity for critical cyber-physical systems, e.g., emergency response and smart city services.
Slicing and combining multiple network segments to build fully-customizable, end-to-end network slices
Virtualizing radios to deploy heterogenous wireless networks on a shared physical network infrastructure
Creating a xApp development course, heavily focused on hands-on experience and implementation
Developing a programmable mmWave platform to enable experimentation on the initial access procedure
Assembling a massive scale SDR testbed for experimentation on future wireless networks... one radio at a time.