I am a last-year PhD student in the Networked Systems Group lead by Prof. Dr. Laurent Vanbever. My research interests lie in the crossroads of Network Programmability and Security. I build data-driven infrastructures to improve networks' performance and security. Part of my work is funded by armasuisse and the Zurich Information Security & Privacy Center.

From July 2023 to October 2023, I visited the Berkeley NetSys Lab at the University of California, Berkeley, under supervision of Prof. Dr. Sylvia Ratnasamy and Prof. Dr. Scott Shenker.

From February 2016 to July 2016, I was a visiting researcher at the Broadband Wireless Networking Lab, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ian F. Akyildiz, working on Network Virtualization for 5G Software-Defined Cellular Systems.

Prior to joining ETH Zürich, I received a Master's Degree in Telecommunication Engineering (2018) and a Bachelor's Degree in Science and Telecommunication Technologies Engineering (2016), both from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Barcelona, Spain.

I have also worked on industry projects for organizations like Cloudflare (2023), IBM (2017), and CERN (2015).

Publications

Everything Matters in Programmable Packet Scheduling

Albert Gran Alcoz, Balázs Vass, Gábor Rétvári, Laurent Vanbever
Under Submission. (June 2023).

QVISOR: Virtualizing Packet Scheduling Policies

Albert Gran Alcoz, Laurent Vanbever
ACM HotNets 2023. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (November 2023).

Reducing P4 Language's Voluminosity using Higher-Level Constructs

Albert Gran Alcoz, Coralie Busse-Grawitz, Eric Marty, Laurent Vanbever
EuroP4 2022. Rome, Italy (December 2022).

Aggregate-Based Congestion Control for Pulse-Wave DDoS Defense

Albert Gran Alcoz, Martin Strohmeier, Vincent Lenders, Laurent Vanbever
ACM SIGCOMM 2022. Amsterdam, Netherlands (August 2022).

SP-PIFO: Approximating Push-In First-Out Behaviors using Strict-Priority Queues

Albert Gran Alcoz, Alexander Dietmüller, Laurent Vanbever
USENIX NSDI 2020. Santa Clara, California, USA (February 2020).

Experimental Assessment of 5-10Gbps 5G Multicarrier Waveforms with Intensity-Modulation Direct-Detection for PONs

Samael Sarmiento, Albert Gran Alcoz, Jose A. Altabas, Marco Scalabroni, Salvatore Spadaro, Ignacio Garces, Jose A. Lazaro
IEEE PSC 2018. Limassol, Cyprus (July 2019).

Towards Wireless Infrastructure-as-a-Service (WIaaS) for 5G Software-Defined Cellular Systems

Albert Gran Alcoz, Shih-Chun Lin, Ian F. Akyildiz
IEEE ICC 2017. Paris, France (May 2017).
Talks

Aggregate-Based Congestion Control for Pulse-Wave DDoS Defense

ABB Corporate Research Center. Baden-Dättwil, Switzerland (March 2024)

Weak-Origin DoS Defense

Cloudflare Research. Munich, Germany (January 2024).
  • Confidential.

QVISOR: Virtualizing Packet Scheduling Policies

ACM HotNets 2023. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (November 2023).

In-Network Congestion Management for Security and Performance

Cloudflare Research. Munich, Germany (November 2023).

Reducing P4 Language's Voluminosity using Higher-Level Constructs

ACM EuroP4 2022. Rome, Italy (December 2022).

Programmable Packet Scheduling on Existing Hardware

Princeton University. ECE 539B. Princeton, New Jersey (Online). (September 2022).

Aggregate-Based Congestion Control for Pulse-Wave DDoS Defense

ACM SIGCOMM 2022. Amsterdam, Netherlands (August 2022).

DDoS-AID: Automated In-Network DDoS Mitigation as a First Line of Defense

Armasuisse Cyber-Alp Retreat 2020. Gstaad, Switzerland (July 2020).

SP-PIFO: Approximating Push-In First-Out Behaviors using Strict-Priority Queues

Intel Corporation, Barefoot Networks. Santa Clara, CA, USA (February 2020).

SP-PIFO: Approximating Push-In First-Out Behaviors using Strict-Priority Queues

Stanford University, Platform Lab Seminar. Palo Alto, CA, USA (February 2020).

SP-PIFO: Approximating Push-In First-Out Behaviors using Strict-Priority Queues

USENIX NSDI 2020. Santa Clara, California, USA (February 2020).

Towards Wireless Infrastructure-as-a-Service (WIaaS) for 5G Software-Defined Cellular Systems

IEEE ICC 2017. Paris, France (May 2017).
Beyond Research

Well2Go: Improving Public Health by Providing Safe Access to Water in Developing Countries

Albert Gran Alcoz, Sergi Caelles, Farah Hadad, Nikolai Tsvetkov, Tino Mendes, Blanca Rosàs
Challenge Based Innovation, IdeaSquare CERN. Geneva, Switzerland (2015).

SafeBeat: Enhancing Traffic Safety in Highway Vehicles Through IoT Technology

Albert Gran Alcoz, Clara Remacha, Marc Castillo, Marc Novillo, Anouar Dinar
Imagine Creativity Center. Barcelona, Spain (2017).

Yellow.Market: Online Marketplace to Foster Proximity Trade and Empower Local Businesses

Albert Villalobos, Alejandra Segón, Albert Gran Alcoz
Ideation process support, early stage. Barcelona, Spain (2019). Now: Magenta.Market.

Random5: The Sustainable Clothing Shopping Game to Save Water and Reduce Pollution

Albert Gran Alcoz, Tanzil Kombarabettu, Ganesh Poojary
App-development lead. Switzerland (2020-2021). Commissioned by ITSRANDOM5 SL (Barcelona).