IMDEA Networks Institute

📚 Discover the latest work from IMDEA Networks.

Our open-access repository brings together publications from our researchers across areas such as artificial intelligence, next-generation networks, cybersecurity, privacy, federated learning, blockchain, and more.

🌐 Explore our publications and discover the ideas driving advances in connected technologies.

🔗 https://dspace.networks.imdea.org/

🏆 IMDEA Networks researchers have received the Mario Gerla Best Paper Award at MAIN 2026.

🤖 Pablo Fernández Pérez, Claudio Fiandrino, Marco Fiore and Joerg Widmer received the award for their paper, "NeuroFlexMLP: a Low Complexity MLP Architecture for Long-Term Time Series Forecasting".

📈 The study demonstrates that a lightweight architecture combining a linear backbone with non-linear residual blocks can match or outperform more complex transformer-based models, highlighting its practical viability for resource-constrained deployments.

🔗 https://dspace.networks.imdea.org/handle/20.500.12761/2046

🔍 What can a closed-access underground hacking forum reveal about the evolution of cybercrime?

🖥️ Researchers have developed XIN, the largest dataset of a closed-access Russian-English underground hacking forum, comprising around 1.3 million posts spanning more than 20 years. The dataset offers unique insights into how cybercrime has evolved and helps shed light on activity within closed, non-English cybercriminal communities.

🎉 Congratulations to Mariella Mischinger and Guillermo Suarez-Tangil on receiving the Best Dataset Paper Honorable Mention at the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2026) for this outstanding work.

🔗https://dspace.networks.imdea.org/handle/20.500.12761/2058

🎓 Warm congratulations to Dr. Serly Moghadas on successfully earning her PhD!

🎉 To mark this achievement, we were delighted to welcome her into the IMDEA Networks Alumni community and present her with her Alumni diploma.

😊 Now working as a Data Analyst at Axon Networks, we wish her continued success as she embarks on this exciting new chapter.

Learn more about her research 👉 https://networks.imdea.org/whatsnew/events-agenda/phd-thesis-defense-scalable-and-explainable-deep-neural-network-frameworks-for-mobile-traffic-forecasting/

📆 Today, at our , our PhD Student Iñaki Bravo will present “MULTI-FI: Enhancing Wi-Fi Sensing Accuracy via Multi-view and Context Fusion”.

🔹 In this talk, he will present recent work that introduces and addresses two limitations of existing Wi-Fi sensing frameworks: 1) How deep within the DL model should views be merged? 2) Are all views equally important? How can we assess the importance of views?

More information on our website 👉 https://networks.imdea.org/whatsnew/events-agenda/multi-fi-enhancing-wi-fi-sensing-accuracy-via-multi-view-and-context-fusion/

🔵 The paper "Pair-Fi: Integrity Code Protected Secure Device Pairing via SDR-Enabled Wi-Fi Chips on Smartphones" has received the ACM WiSec 2026 Best Paper Award.

📱 Co-authored by Jakob Link, Florentin Putz, and IMDEA Networks Research Professor Matthias Hollick, this work introduces a novel approach that enables smartphones to establish secure wireless connections faster and more reliably using their built-in Wi-Fi hardware.

🔒 By overcoming key limitations of existing pairing methods, Pair-Fi paves the way for more secure interactions between smartphones, wearables, and other connected devices.

🔗 Read the news:

Pair-Fi: A novel approach to secure wireless device pairing wins Best Paper Award at WiSec 2026 - IMDEA Networks The paper “Pair-Fi: Integrity Code Protected Secure Device Pairing via SDR-Enabled Wi-Fi Chips on Smartphones“, co-authored by Jakob Link, Florentin Putz, and IMDEA Networks Research Professor Matthias Hollick, has received the Best Full Paper Award at the ACM Conference on Security and Privacy ...

📣 This Thursday, July 23, our PhD Student Serly Moghadas will defend her doctoral thesis at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

🔹“Scalable and Explainable Deep Neural Network Frameworks for Mobile Traffic Forecasting"

📡 Her thesis investigates how deep neural networks can support reliable mobile traffic forecasting for 5G and future mobile networks. Accurate forecasts allow network operators to anticipate demand, allocate radio and computing resources efficiently, improve service quality, and reduce unnecessary energy consumption.

We wish her the best of luck! 🍀

Learn more about her work ➡️ https://networks.imdea.org/whatsnew/events-agenda/phd-thesis-defense-scalable-and-explainable-deep-neural-network-frameworks-for-mobile-traffic-forecasting/

📆 Today, our will feature a talk by Valerio Pruneri, ICREA Professor and Corning Inc. Chair, who leads the Optoelectronics group at ICFO.

🔹 He will present the PIXEurope Pilot Line, a recently launched €400 million initiative under the Chips Joint Undertaking (Chips JU) in which IMDEA Networks participates. The project aims to develop and transfer advanced photonic integrated circuit (PIC) technologies and processes.

More information on our website 👉 https://networks.imdea.org/whatsnew/events-agenda/pixeurope-pilot-line-to-enable-photonics-in-spain-and-europe/

👏 Innovation recognized at MobiSys 2026.

📡 "ISAC Real-Time Experimentation Platform" received the Best Demo Award Runner-Up for introducing a cross-layer hardware-software architecture that enables the real-time extraction and streaming of channel estimates for sensing while preserving a 5G-like communication link.

🎯 As a proof of concept, the platform extracts and visualizes the micro-Doppler signatures of moving targets in real time.

Congratulations to our researchers!

🏭 PRIME-6G has officially launched!

🔵 IMDEA Networks is part of PRIME-6G, a €7.76 million Horizon Europe project funded by the SNS Joint Undertaking that aims to accelerate the adoption of 6G technologies in industrial manufacturing.

Over the next 30 months, the consortium will develop and validate an end-to-end platform combining 6G connectivity, AI, robotics, cloud-edge computing and real-time sensing to enable more intelligent, resilient and efficient factories.

🦾 At IMDEA Networks, we lead the SENTINEL use case, developing 6G sensing technologies that create real-time digital twins of factory environments using existing communication infrastructure, improving the safety and efficiency of human-robot collaboration.

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PRIME-6G launches to build the next generation of connected factories - IMDEA Networks PRIME-6G (Pilot for Resilient Industrial Manufacturing Environments with 6G Technologies), a EUR 7.76 million project funded by the European Union under the Horizon Europe programme through the Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU), has officially launched. This pioneering initiativ...