Vitor Antonio Goncalves Ribeiro da Cunha

Vítor Cunha

Academic position:	Assistant Professor
Joining date:	03-07-2023
Roles in IT:	Researcher
Thematic Line:	Networks and Services
Group:	Telecommunications and Networking – Av

IT – Aveiro
Instituto de Telecomunicações
Campus Universitário de Santiago
P-3810-193 AVEIRO - PORTUGAL
Tel: +351234377900
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https://www.orcid.org/0000-0002-4566-0198

http://www.cienciavitae.pt/371E-C81C-62CD

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18-09-2023

Vitor Cunha awarded research addresses a critical need in today's digital landscape

Our researcher Vitor Cunha was interviewed as part of the award he received from Altice Innovation 2023, an award that recognizes and validates the theme of his doctoral thesis completed in 2022.

14-12-2022

Dynamic Defense doctoral project winner of the Altice International Innovation Award 2022

Vitor Cunha won in the “Academy” section with the work entitled “Dynamic Defense for Softwarized and Virtualized Networks.”

Scientific Achievements

Academic Activities

1Lecture courses

Segurança em Sistemas de Larga Escala, Universidade de Aveiro, Mestrado de Cibersegurança

1Supervision of PhD theses

As Supervisor

Real-Time Observation System for Distributed Workflows: Ensuring Execution Verification, Integrity, and Compliance, PhD Student, Sofia Teixeira Vaz, Expected conclusion 12-2028

8Supervision of MSc theses

As Supervisor

Lightweight Machine Learning Models for Anomaly Detection in Serverless Functions, MSc Student, Patrícia Rafaela da Rocha Cardoso, Expected conclusion 12-2026
Security and Sustainability, MSc Student, Tiago Gamboa Cravos Dos Santos Lucas, Expected conclusion 12-2026
Cloud Native Workflow Runtime Security, MSc Student, Tiago Lopes Monteiro da Silva, Expected conclusion 12-2026
Next-Generation Threats: Denial of Sustainability, MSc Student, Nuno Ferreira, Concluded 07-2025

As Co-supervisor

Detecting Anomalous Behavior in Serverless Functions with System Call Monitoring, MSc Student, Pedro Durval Cabral Polónia Cruzeiro, Concluded 12-2025
Latency sensitive services in edge clouds, MSc Student, Andre Miguel Sampaio Alves, Concluded 12-2024
Human Centric Secure Onboarding in 6G, MSc Student, Diogo Emanuel Jesus Santos, Concluded 12-2024
Advancing Malware Defense, MSc Student, Rodrigo França Lima, Concluded 12-2024

Publications

12Papers in Journals

F. A. Antão, H. R. Chi, D. Corujo, V. A. Cunha, M. Sanchez, R. Aguiar, Toward Decarbonized Network Function Virtualization-Based ICT Management: Standardization, Architecture, and Challenges, IEEE Communications Standards Magazine, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 162 - 170, March, 2026,
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P. Escaleira, V. A. Cunha, JPB Barraca, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, Enhancing Serverless Function Resilience Against Vulnerabilities with MoFaaS, Journal of Network and Systems Management, Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. -, March, 2026,
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S. Vaz, V. A. Cunha, R. Aguiar, Towards Byzantine Fault-resistance in Workflows: Challenges and Directions, Journal of Mobile Multimedia, Vol., No., pp. -, March, 2026,
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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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C. Silva, V. A. Cunha, JPB Barraca, P. Salvador, Privacy-Based Deployments: The Role of DevPrivOps in 6G Mobile Networks, IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 62, No. 6, pp. 66 - 72, June, 2024,
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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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C. Silva, V. A. Cunha, JPB Barraca, Analysis of the Cryptographic Algorithms in IoT Communications, Information Systems Frontiers, Vol. 0, No. 0, pp. 0 - 0, May, 2023 | BibTex
D. Corujo, V. A. Cunha, A. Perdigão, R. Silva, D. Santos, R. Aguiar, P. Paixão, P. Elísio, R. Antunes, C. M. Marques, A. Gomes, J. Quevedo, An Empirical Assessment of the Contribution of 5G in Vertical Industries: A Case for the Transportation Sector, IEEE Access, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 15348 - 15363, February, 2023,
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X. Li, C. Guimarães, G. Landi, J. Brenes, J. Mangues-Bafalluy, J. Baranda, D. Corujo, V. A. Cunha, J. Fonseca, J. Alegria, A. Orive, J. Ordonez-Lucena, P. Iovanna, CB Bernardos, A. Mourad, X. Costa-Perez, Multi-Domain Solutions for the Deployment of Private 5G Networks, IEEE Access, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 106865 - 106884, July, 2021,
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V. A. Cunha, D. Corujo, JPB Barraca, R. Aguiar, TOTP Moving Target Defense for sensitive network services, Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Vol. 74, No. 101412, pp. 101412 - 101412, May, 2021,
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V. A. Cunha, D. Corujo, JPB Barraca, R. Aguiar, Moving Target Defense to set Network Slicing Security as a KPI, Internet Technology Letters, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 1 - 6, May, 2020,
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V. A. Cunha, E. Silva, M. B. de Carvalho, D. Corujo, JPB Barraca, D.Gomes Gomes, L. Z. Granville, R. Aguiar, Network Slicing Security: Challenges and Directions, Internet Technology Letters, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 0 - 0, August, 2019,
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15Papers in Conferences

D. SANTOS, C. Fonseca, V. A. Cunha, JPB Barraca, R. Aguiar, Human Centric Private & Secure Onboarding for Network Applications in 6G, International Conference on 6G Networking 6GNet, Paris, France, Vol., pp. -, December, 2025 | BibTex
S. Vaz, V. A. Cunha, R. Aguiar, Observing the Edge: Host Behavior as a Foundation for Workflow Security, INForum, Évora, Portugal, September, 2025,
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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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J. Fonseca, J. Alegria, V. A. Cunha, J. Quevedo, D. Santos, D.Gomes Gomes, JPB Barraca, D. Corujo, R. Aguiar, Dynamic Interdomain Network Slicing for Verticals in the 5Growth Project, IEEE SDN/NFV - Mobislice Workshop, Conference online, November, 2021,
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C. Silva, V. A. Cunha, JPB Barraca, R. Aguiar, Hands-on evaluation of the cryptographic overhead on wireless sensor networks, IEEE International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud FICLOUD, Rome, Italy, August, 2021 | BibTex
V. A. Cunha, N. Maroulis, C. Papagianni, J. Sacido, M. Jimenez, F. Ubaldi, M. Gharbaoui, C. Chang, N. Koursioumpas, K. Tomakh, D. Corujo, JPB Barraca, S. Barmpounakis, D. Kucherenko, A. Giorgetti, A. Boddi, L. Valcarenghi, O. Kolodiazhnyi, A. Zabala, J. Salvat, A. Garcia-Saavedra, 5 Growth: Secure and Reliable Network Slicing for Verticals, European Conference on Networks and Communications - EuCNC, Porto, Portugal, June, 2021 | BibTex
V. A. Cunha, D. Corujo, JPB Barraca, R. Aguiar, Using Linux TCP connection repair for mid-session endpoint handover: a security enhancement use-case, IEEE SDN/NFV - Mobislice Workshop, Madrid, Spain, November, 2020 | BibTex
M. B. de Carvalho, V. A. Cunha, E. Silva, D. Corujo, JPB Barraca, R. Aguiar, L. Z. Granville, Quantifying the Influence of Regulatory Instructions over the Detection of Network Neutrality Violations, IFIP Networking, Paris, France, June, 2020,
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V. A. Cunha, E. Silva, M. B. de Carvalho, D. Corujo, JPB Barraca, D.Gomes Gomes, A. Schaeffer-Filho, C. R. P. Santos, L. Z. Granville, R. Aguiar, A Network Service for Preventing Data Leakage from IoT Cloud-assisted Equipment, IEEE International Symposium on Computer and Communications - ISCC, Barcelona, Spain, June, 2019,
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V. A. Cunha, E. Silva, M. B. de Carvalho, D. Corujo, JPB Barraca, D.Gomes Gomes, A. Schaeffer-Filho, C. R. P. Santos, L. Z. Granville, R. Aguiar, Safeguarding from abuse by IoT vendors: Edge messages verification of cloud-assisted equipment, IFIP/IEEE International Symp. on Integrated Network Management - IFIP/IEEE IM, Arlington, United States, April, 2019,
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E. Sousa, V. A. Cunha, M. B. de Carvalho, D. Corujo, JPB Barraca, D.Gomes Gomes, A. Schaeffer-Filho, C. R. P. Santos, L. Z. Granville, R. Aguiar, Orchestrating an SFC-enabled SSL/TLS traffic processing architecture using MANO, IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks NFV-SDN, Verona, Italy, November, 2018,
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V. A. Cunha, M. B. de Carvalho, D. Corujo, JPB Barraca, D.Gomes Gomes, A. Schaeffer-Filho, C. R. P. Santos, L. Z. Granville, R. Aguiar, An SFC-enabled Approach for Processing SSL/TLS Encrypted Traffic in Future Enterprise Networks, IEEE International Symposium on Computer and Communications - ISCC, Natal, Brazil, June, 2018,
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C. P. Parada, F. Fontes, C . M. M. Marques, V. A. Cunha, CL Leitão, Multi-access Edge Computing: A 5G Technology, European Conf. on Networks and Communications - EUCNC, Ljubljana, Slovenia, June, 2018,
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L. Marcuzzo, V. Garcia, V. A. Cunha, D. Corujo, JPB Barraca, R. Aguiar, A. Schaeffer-Filho, L. Z. Granville, C. R. P. Santos, Click-on-OSv: A Platform for Running Click-based Middleboxes, IFIP/IEEE International Symp. on Integrated Network Management - IFIP/IEEE IM, Lisbon, Portugal, May, 2017 | BibTex
V. A. Cunha, IG Cardoso, JPB Barraca, R. Aguiar, Policy-Driven vCPE Through Dynamic Network Service Function Chaining, IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization NetSoft, Seul, Korea, South, June, 2016 | BibTex

Projects

Currently running projects1

Acronym	Name	Funding Agency	Start date	Ending date
EXIGENCE	Devise & explore a novel approach for energy consumption and carbon footprint reduction of ICT services in the era of next-generation mobile telecommunications (6G)	Horizon Europe	01-01-2024	30-06-2026

Closed Projects1

Acronym	Name	Funding Agency	Start date	Ending date
RIGOUROUS	Secure Design and Deployment of Trustworthy Continuum Computing 6G Services	EU	01-01-2023	31-12-2025

Other Scientific Achievements

1Awards

V. A. Cunha, Altice International Innovation Award 2022 (Academy), Altice International Innovation Award (Academy track) recognizes the best Ph.D. thesis in TICE areas defended within 2021 and 2022., 01-11-2022

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