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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Rameshan, Navaneeth (Date of defense: 2016-10-24)
With the advent of resource shared environments such as the Cloud, virtualization has become the de facto standard for server consolidation. While consolidation improves utilization, it causes performance-interference ...
Llatser Martí, Ignacio (Date of defense: 2014-01-17)
Nanosystems, integrated systems with a total size of a few micrometers, are capable of interacting at the nanoscale, but their short operating range limits their usefulness in practical macro-scale scenarios. Nanonetworks, ...
Coras, Florin (Date of defense: 2015-07-23)
In just four decades the Internet has gone from a lab experiment to a worldwide, business critical infrastructure that caters to the communication needs of almost a half of the Earth's population. With these figures on its ...
Selimi, Mennan (Date of defense: 2017-05-22)
Community networks (CNs) have gained momentum in the last few years in response to the growing demand for network connectivity in rural and urban areas. These networks, owned and managed by volunteers, offer various services ...
Darehshoorzadeh, Amir (Date of defense: 2012-07-23)
Advances in communication and networking technologies are rapidly making ubiquitous network connectivity a reality. In recent years, Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have already become very popular and been receiving an ...
Alvanos, Michail (Date of defense: 2013-12-10)
Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) languages promise to deliver improved programmer productivity and good performance in large-scale parallel machines. However, adequate performance for applications that rely on ...
Farreras Esclusa, Montse (Date of defense: 2008-12-12)
Since the invention of the transistor, clock frequency increase was the primary method of improving computing performance. As the reach of Moore's law came to an end, however, technology driven performance gains became ...
Kumar, Rakesh (Date of defense: 2014-07-24)
SIMD accelerators are ubiquitous in microprocessors from different computing domains. Their high compute power and hardware simplicity improve overall performance in an energy efficient manner. Moreover, their replicated ...
Salamí San Juan, Esther (Date of defense: 2007-06-01)
The growing interest that multimedia processing has experimented during the last decade is motivating processor designers to reconsider which execution paradigms are the most appropriate for general-purpose processors. On ...
Asensio Garcia, Adrian (Date of defense: 2016-06-10)
In the Internet of services, information technology (IT) infrastructure providers play a critical role in making the services accessible to end-users. IT infrastructure providers host platforms and services in their ...
Pérez Rico, Juan Luis (Date of defense: 2018-11-26)
In recent years there has been an extraordinary growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) and its protocols. The increasing diffusion of electronic devices with identification, computing and communication capabilities is ...