Pedro Miguel Nicolau Escaleira

Pedro Escaleira

Academic position:	Researcher
Joining date:	10-02-2022
Roles in IT:	Researcher
Thematic Line:	Networks and Services
Group:	Telecommunications and Networking – Av

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Address: IT – Aveiro
Instituto de Telecomunicações
Campus Universitário de Santiago
P-3810-193 AVEIRO - PORTUGAL
Tel: +351 234 377 900

http://www.cienciavitae.pt/741C-F622-2FD4

https://www.orcid.org/0000-0001-9080-6080

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08-10-2024

IT accelerates R&D in autonomous, connected and cooperative mobility in Portugal

Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT) plays a pivotal role in coordinating large-scale demonstrators and advancing the RD&I efforts laid out in Route25. Several IT teams collaborate with partners across different regions in Portugal, driving technological and software development for autonomous, connected, and cooperative mobility solutions.

03-01-2024

Pedro Escaleira won AP2SI Merit Award and IEEE Portugal Section's Outstanding MSc Thesis Award

Pedro Escaleira recently won two awards related to his Master's dissertation, entitled "Securing Real World 5G MEC Deployments”, conducted in the scope of NetEdge project.

02-06-2023

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04-05-2023

Pedro Escaleira won the Best Thesis da APDC Award in the scope of NetEdge project

Pedro Escaleira won the 3rd edition of the APDC Best Thesis Award in the area of Telecommunications.

Scientific Achievements

Degrees

MSc, Universidade de Aveiro, 14-12-2022
Licenciatura, Universidade de Aveiro, 01-07-2020

Leadership Positions

1Leadership Positions

Technical Steering Commitee (TSC), Open Source MANO, fev-2024 - fev-2025

Publications

2Papers in Journals

P. Escaleira, V. A. Cunha, JPB Barraca, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, A systematic review on security mechanisms for serverless computing, Cluster Computing, Vol. 28, No. 7, pp. -, July, 2025,
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P. Escaleira, V. A. Cunha, D.Gomes Gomes, JPB Barraca, R. Aguiar, Moving Target Defense for the cloud/edge Telco environments, Internet of Things, Vol. 24, No. 2023, pp. 100916 - 100916, August, 2023,
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6Papers in Conferences

D. M. Magalhães, J. M. Matos, P. Escaleira, D. Santos, D. Corujo, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, Federation-Aware MEC Architecture for Dynamic Service Migration, IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks NFV-SDN, Athens, Greece, Vol., pp. -, November, 2025,
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P. Pereira, P. Escaleira, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, Automatic Service Migration in a MEC-NFV Environment, IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks NFV-SDN, Natal, Brazil, Vol., pp. -, November, 2024,
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P. Pereira, F. Cardita, A. Castanheta, H. Cruz, L. Oliveira, S. Teixeira, P. Escaleira, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, Automatic Service Migration in a MEC-NFV Environment for a User Mobility Scenario, IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks NFV-SDN, Natal, Brazil, Vol., pp. -, November, 2024,
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J. Fonseca, D. Santos, E. Vieira, J. Silva, P. Escaleira, R. R. Rodriguez, J. A. Almeida, J. Quevedo, P. Rito, B. Parreira, D. Corujo, J. Ferreira, M. Araújo, S. Sargento, Exploring Multi-Access Edge Computing Federation for V2X Scenarios in the Route 25 Project, IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference - MELECON, Porto, Portugal, Vol. 2024 IEEE 22nd Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (MELECON) (MELECON 2024), pp. -, June, 2024,
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P. Escaleira, V. A. Cunha, JPB Barraca, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, MoFaaS: A Moving Target Defense Approach to Fortify Functions as a Service, IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Paris, France, Vol., pp. -, June, 2024,
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P. Escaleira, M. Mota, D.Gomes Gomes, JPB Barraca, R. Aguiar, Multi-access Edge Computing as a Service, International Conference on Network and Service Management CNSM, Thessaloniki, Greece, Vol., pp. -, November, 2022,
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Projects

Currently running projects2

Acronym	Name	Funding Agency	Start date	Ending date
inMotion	inMotion		01-07-2025	30-06-2027
Route25	Route 25: Agenda for Autonomous, Intelligent, Interoperable and Inclusive Mobility	IAPMEI	01-10-2022	30-06-2026

Closed Projects1

Acronym	Name	Funding Agency	Start date	Ending date
NetEdge	SI I&DT Copromoção Nr. 069977 - NETEDGE - EDgE computing for end-users of optical Networks	P2020	01-12-2020	30-06-2023

Other Scientific Achievements

4Awards

P. Escaleira, AP2SI Merit Award for Masters in Information Security, This is a prize awarded by AP2SI each year to an outstanding Master's thesis in the area of Cybersecurity in Portugal. The award has an associated monetary contribution of 1000€., 01-11-2023
P. Escaleira, IEEE Portugal Outstanding MSc Thesis Award, This is a prize awarded by the IEEE Portugal Section to recognize exceptional Master’s thesis in the technical areas under the scope of IEEE., 01-11-2023
P. Escaleira, Best Thesis Award, The APDC Best Thesis Award (BTA) is an annual award that aims to reward the merit of master's dissertations by students from schools belonging to the Consortium of Engineering Schools (Consórcio das Escolas de Engenharia in Portuguese), having an associated monetary contribution of 1500€. This award was given to Pedro Escaleira's master's thesis entitled "Securing Real World 5G MEC Deployments", completed in 2022, in the telecommunications modality., 01-05-2023
P. Escaleira, ETSI OSM Release Twelve Outstanding Technical Contributor, Award presented in recognition of his excellent and dedicated work within ETSI OSM during its Release TWELVE cycle, for progressing various technical areas with high quality contributions and expertise, bringing the best level of enthusiasm and team spirit to the OSM community, 01-06-2022

Other Contributions

1Conference Committees

IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Technical Programme Committee, 2024

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