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    Efficient algorithms for passive network measurement 

    Sanjuàs Cuxart, Josep (Date of defense: 2012-03-23)

    Network monitoring has become a necessity to aid in the management and operation of large networks. Passive network monitoring consists of extracting metrics (or any information of interest) by analyzing the traffic that ...

    Efficient hardware acceleration of deep neural networks via arithmetic complexity reduction 

    Reggiani, Enrico (Date of defense: 2023-10-26)

    (English) Over the past decade, significant progresses in the field of artificial intelligence have led to remarkable advancements in a wide range of technologies. Deep learning, a subfield of machine learning centered ...

    Efficient hardware/software co-designed schemes for low-power processors 

    López Muñoz, Pedro (Date of defense: 2014-03-17)

    Nowadays, we are reaching a point where further improving single thread performance can only be done at the expenses of significantly increasing power consumption. Thus, multi-core chips have been adopted by the industry ...

    Efficient openMP over sequentially consistent distributed shared memory systems 

    Costa Prats, Juan José (Date of defense: 2011-07-20)

    Nowadays clusters are one of the most used platforms in High Performance Computing and most programmers use the Message Passing Interface (MPI) library to program their applications in these distributed platforms getting ...

    Elastic phone : towards detecting and mitigating computation and energy inefficiencies in mobile apps 

    Almeida, Mario Manuel Sa Dias e Pinto de (Date of defense: 2018-07-12)

    Mobile devices have become ubiquitous and their ever evolving capabilities are bringing them closer to personal computers. Nonetheless, due to their mobility and small size factor constraints, they still present many ...

    Electromechanical large scale computational models of the ventricular myocardium 

    Arís Sánchez, Ruth (Date of defense: 2014-11-06)

    Els models computacionals del cor són una eina important que pot donar als investigadors biomèdics una font addicional d’informació per entendre el funcionament del miocardi. Els models numèrics poden ajudar a interpretar ...

    Enabling caches in probabilistic timing analysis 

    Kosmidis, Leonidas (Date of defense: 2017-09-06)

    Hardware and software complexity of future critical real-time systems challenges the scalability of traditional timing analysis methods. Measurement-Based Probabilistic Timing Analysis (MBPTA) has recently emerged as an ...

    Enabling knowledge-defined networks : deep reinforcement learning, graph neural networks and network analytics 

    Suárez-Varela Macià, José Rafael (Date of defense: 2020-06-26)

    Significant breakthroughs in the last decade in the Machine Learning (ML) field have ushered in a new era of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Particularly, recent advances in Deep Learning (DL) have enabled to develop a new ...

    Enabling the use of embedded and mobile technologies for high-performance computing 

    Rajović, Nikola (Date of defense: 2017-06-30)

    In the late 1990s, powerful economic forces led to the adoption of commodity desktop processors in High-Performance Computing(HPC). This transformation has been so effective that the November 2016 TOP500 list is still ...

    End-to-end network service orchestration in heterogeneous domains for next-generation mobile networks 

    Baranda Hortigüela, Jorge (Date of defense: 2021-11-09)

    5G marks the beginning of a deep revolution in the mobile network ecosystem, transitioning to a network of services to satisfy the demands of new players, the vertical industries. This revolution implies a redesign of the ...

    Energy efficient cooperative node management for wireless multimedia sensor networks 

    Alaei, Mohammad (Date of defense: 2013-06-27)

    In Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs) the lifetime of battery operated visual nodes is limited by their energy consumption, which is proportional to the energy required for sensing, processing, and transmitting ...

    Energy optimising methodologies on heterogeneous data centres 

    Nishtala, Rajiv (Date of defense: 2017-07-10)

    In 2013, U.S. data centres accounted for 2.2% of the country's total electricity consumption, a figure that is projected to increase rapidly over the next decade. A significant proportion of power consumed within a data ...

    Energy sharing in smart grids : a game theory approach 

    AlSkaif, Tarek (Date of defense: 2016-07-26)

    The need for energy conservation, grid reliability, and improved operational efficiencies have led to the changes from conventional electricity grids which have “blind” and manual operations, along with the electromechanical ...

    Energy-efficient architectures for recurrent neural networks 

    Silfa, Franyell (Date of defense: 2021-01-25)

    Deep Learning algorithms have been remarkably successful in applications such as Automatic Speech Recognition and Machine Translation. Thus, these kinds of applications are ubiquitous in our lives and are found in a plethora ...

    Energy-efficient mobile GPU systems 

    Arnau, Jose Maria (Date of defense: 2015-04-24)

    The design of mobile GPUs is all about saving energy. Smartphones and tablets are battery-operated and thus any type of rendering needs to use as little energy as possible. Furthermore, smartphones do not include sophisticated ...

    Enginyeria de tràfic en xarxes de transport òptiques per a entorns d'àrea metropolitana (RPR) i de gran abast (ASON) 

    Spadaro, Salvatore (Date of defense: 2005-02-15)

    La arquitectura de las redes de transporte actuales está basada en la tecnología de transporte SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy). Las redes SDH se han diseñado y están optimizadas básicamente para el transporte del tráfico ...

    Enhanced clustering analysis pipeline for performance analysis of parallel applications 

    Mahdavi, Kaveh (Date of defense: 2022-07-28)

    Clustering analysis is widely used to stratify data in the same cluster when they are similar according to the specific metrics. We can use the cluster analysis to group the CPU burst of a parallel application, and the ...

    Enhanced Fast Rerouting Mechanisms for Protected Traffic in MPLS Networks 

    Hundessa Gonfa, Lemma (Date of defense: 2003-04-03)

    Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) fuses the intelligence of routing with the performance of switching and provides significant benefits to networks with a pure IP architecture as well as those with IP and ATM or a mix ...

    Enhancing the efficiency and practicality of software transactional memory on massively multithreaded systems 

    Kestor, Gökçen (Date of defense: 2013-03-22)

    Chip Multithreading (CMT) processors promise to deliver higher performance by running more than one stream of instructions in parallel. To exploit CMT's capabilities, programmers have to parallelize their applications, ...

    Enhancing timing analysis for COTS multicores for safety-related industry : a software approach 

    Fernández Díaz, Gabriel Alejandro (Date of defense: 2018-11-15)

    Artificial system interaction with the real environment is in general based on the deployment of properly coordinated sensors and actuators, establishing between them a “dynamic control-loop”. The time to close this ...