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    Network coding for transport protocols 

    Gheorghiu, Steluta (Date of defense: 2011-07-11)

    With the proliferation of smart devices that require Internet connectivity anytime, anywhere, and the recent technological advances that make it possible, current networked systems will have to provide a various range of ...

    Network traffic classification : from theory to practice 

    Carela Español, Valentín (Date of defense: 2014-10-31)

    Since its inception until today, the Internet has been in constant transformation. The analysis and monitoring of data networks try to shed some light on this huge black box of interconnected computers. In particular, the ...

    Next generation overlay networks : security, trust, and deployment challenges 

    Paillissé Vilanova, Jordi (Date of defense: 2021-07-23)

    Overlay networks are a technique to build a new network on top of an existing one. They are a key tool to add functionality to existing networks, and are used in different layers of the Internet stack for a wide variety ...

    Non-functional considerations of time-randomized processor architectures 

    Trilla Rodríguez, David (Date of defense: 2020-12-04)

    Critical Real-Time Embedded Systems (CRTES) are the subset of embedded systems with timing constraints whose miss behavior can endanger human lives or expensive equipment. To provide evidence of correctness, CRTES are ...

    Novel architectures and strategies for security offloading 

    Montero Banegas, Diego (Date of defense: 2017-11-03)

    Internet has become an indispensable and powerful tool in our modern society. Its ubiquitousness, pervasiveness and applicability have fostered paradigm changes around many aspects of our lives. This phenomena has positioned ...

    Novel techniques to improve the performance and the energy of vector architectures 

    Barredo Ferreira, Adrián (Date of defense: 2021-07-19)

    The rate of annual data generation grows exponentially. At the same time, there is a high demand to analyze that information quickly. In the past, every processor generation came with a substantial frequency increase, ...

    Novel vector architectures for data management 

    Hayes, Timothy (Date of defense: 2015-07-08)

    As the rate of annual data generation grows exponentially, there is a demand to manage, query and summarise vast amounts of information quickly. In the past, frequency scaling was relied upon to push application throughput. ...

    Numerical solution of 3-D electromagnetic problems in exploration geophysics and its implementation on massively parallel computers 

    Koldan, Jelena (Date of defense: 2013-10-30)

    The growing significance, technical development and employment of electromagnetic (EM) methods in exploration geophysics have led to the increasing need for reliable and fast techniques of interpretation of 3-D EM data ...

    Off-line and in-operation optical core networks planning 

    Castro, Alberto (Date of defense: 2014-10-10)

    The ever increasing IP traffic volume has finally brought to light the high inefficiency of current wavelength-routed over rigid-grid optical networks in matching the client layer requirements. Such an issue results in the ...

    Offset time-emulated architecture for optical burst switching-modelling and performance evaluation 

    Klinkowski, Miroslaw (Date of defense: 2008-02-14)

    L'evolució de les xarxes publiques de transport de dades destaca per el continu augment de la demanda de tràfic a la que estan sotmeses. La causa és la imparable popularització d'Internet i del seu ús per a tot tipus ...

    On algorithmic reductions in task-parallel programming models 

    Ciesko, Jan (Date of defense: 2017-07-24)

    Wide adoption of parallel processing hardware in mainstream computing as well as the interest for efficient parallel programming in developer communities increase the demand for programming models that offer support for ...

    On scalable, reconfigurable, and intelligent metasurfaces 

    Taghvaee, Hamidreza (Date of defense: 2021-07-21)

    Sixth Generation (6G) of wireless networks will be even more heterogeneous and dense as compared to Fifth Generation (5G) and other legacy networks. Thus, the 6G architecture will need to be adapted to serve the ever-evolving ...

    On service optimization in community network micro-clouds 

    Apolonia, Nuno (Date of defense: 2018-09-21)

    Internet coverage in the world is still weak and local communities are required to come together and build their own network infrastructures. People collaborate for the common goal of accessing the Internet and cloud ...

    On the co-design of scientific applications and long vector architectures 

    Gómez Crespo, Constantino (Date of defense: 2022-05-23)

    The landscape of High Performance Computing (HPC) system architectures keeps expanding with new technologies and increased complexity. To improve the efficiency of next-generation compute devices, architects are looking ...

    On the data quality improvement of air pollution monitoring low-cost sensor networks using data-driven techniques 

    Ferrer Cid, Pau (Date of defense: 2023-05-08)

    (English) Nowadays, authorities monitor the concentrations of regulated air pollutants in order to assist in decision-making processes, e.g., for the implementation of traffic restrictions, and mitigate the effects of air ...

    On the design and development of programming models for exascale systems 

    Maroñas, Marcos (Date of defense: 2021-02-17)

    High Performance Computing (HPC) systems have been evolving over time to adapt to the scientific community requirements. We are currently approaching to the Exascale era. Exascale systems will incorporate a large number ...

    On the design of power- and energy-efficient functional units for vector processors 

    Ratković, Ivan (Date of defense: 2016-12-14)

    Vector processors are a very promising solution for mobile devices and servers due to their inherently energy-efficient way of exploiting datalevel parallelism. While vector processors succeeded in the high performance ...

    On the limits of probabilistic timing analysis 

    Milutinovic, Suzana (Date of defense: 2019-12-18)

    Over the last years, we are witnessing the steady and rapid growth of Critica! Real-Time Embedded Systems (CRTES) industries, such as automotive and aerospace. Many of the increasingly-complex CRTES' functionalities that ...

    On the programmability of heterogeneous massively-parallel computing systems 

    Gelado Fernández, Isaac (Date of defense: 2010-07-02)

    Heterogeneous parallel computing combines general purpose processors with accelerators to efficiently execute both sequential control-intensive and data-parallel phases of applications. Existing programming models for ...

    On the programmability of multi-GPU computing systems 

    Cabezas Rodríguez, Javier (Date of defense: 2015-06-29)

    Multi-GPU systems are widely used in High Performance Computing environments to accelerate scientific computations. This trend is expected to continue as integrated GPUs will be introduced to processors used in multi-socket ...