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    Contributions to provide a QoS-aware self-configured framework for video-streaming services over ad hoc networks 

    Mezher, Ahmad Mohamad (Date of defense: 2016-04-22)

    Ad hoc networks have attracted much attention from the research community over the last years and important technical advances have risen as a consequence. These networks are foreseen as an important kind of next generation ...

    Contributions to QoS and energy efficiency in wi-fi networks 

    Camps Mur, Daniel (Date of defense: 2012-01-19)

    The Wi-Fi technology has been in the recent years fostering the proliferation of attractive mobile computing devices with broadband capabilities. Current Wi-Fi radios though severely impact the battery duration of these ...

    Contributions to security and privacy protection in recommendation systems 

    Vera del Campo, Juan (Date of defense: 2012-10-29)

    A recommender system is an automatic system that, given a customer model and a set of available documents, is able to select and offer those documents that are more interesting to the customer. From the point of view of ...

    Contributions to the algorithms and methodologies for virtual infrastructure provisioning 

    Ferrer Riera, Jordi (Date of defense: 2016-01-20)

    Virtualization is defined as the process consisting of building a virtual resource on top of one or several physical resources, depending on the selected paradigm: aggregation or partitioning. From the net- working ...

    Contributions to the evaluation and improvement of LoRaWAN 

    Casals Ibáñez, Lluís (Date of defense: 2023-05-30)

    (English) Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) technologies have gained significant momentum as wireless solutions for implementing Internet of Things (IoT) applications and services. The unique set of LPWAN features, such ...

    Contributions to the evolution of next generation WLANs 

    Afaqui, Muhammad Shahwaiz (Date of defense: 2017-06-28)

    The explosive growth in usage of IEEE 802.11 based WLAN networks has resulted in dense deployments in diverse environments and has made the concept of anytime - anywhere data connectivity a realm of commercial reality. The ...

    Contributions to the future media internet using service-oriented architectures 

    González Cela, Alberto José (Date of defense: 2012-09-26)

    Nowadays, video streaming applications are the most bandwidth-hungry applications and this tendency is envisaged to grow exponentially. With the proliferation of multimedia capable devices, multimedia services have to ...

    Contributions to the performance evaluation and improvement of the IPv6 routing protocol for low-power and lossy networks 

    Kermajani, Hamidreza (Date of defense: 2014-09-03)

    Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have become increasingly important. These networks comprise sensor and actuator nodes that enable intelligent monitoring and control applications in a wide spectrum of environments including ...

    Contributions to the routing of traffic flows in multi-hop IEEE 802.11 wireless networks 

    Catalán Cid, Miguel (Date of defense: 2016-02-10)

    The IEEE 802.11 standard was not initially designed to provide multi-hop capabilities. Therefore, providing a proper traffic performance in Multi-Hop IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks (MIWNs) becomes a significant challenge. ...

    Contributions to the security of cognitive radio networks 

    León Abarca, Olga (Date of defense: 2012-01-31)

    The increasing emergence of wireless applications along with the static spectrum allocation followed by regulatory bodies has led to a high inefficiency in spectrum usage, and the lack of spectrum for new services. In this ...

    Contributions to TOA-based location with wlan 

    Ciurana Adell, Marc (Date of defense: 2010-07-15)

    Location techniques that satisfy the requirements of advanced Location-Based Services (LBS) in environments where GPS fails are needed, therefore accurate indoor positioning is becoming increasingly important. This PhD ...

    Contributions to topology discovery, self-healing and VNF placement in software-defined and virtualized networks 

    Ochoa Aday, Leonardo (Date of defense: 2019-01-30)

    The evolution of information and communication technologies (e.g. cloud computing, the Internet of Things (IoT) and 5G, among others) has enabled a large market of applications and network services for a massive number of ...

    Contributions towards softwarization and energy saving in passive optical networks 

    Khalili, Hamzeh (Date of defense: 2018-09-20)

    Ths thesis is a result of contributions to optimize and improve the network management systme and power consumption in Passive Optical Network (PON). Passive Optical Network elements such as Optical Line Terminal (OLT) and ...

    Control de congestión multipunto en redes IP y ATM. Diseño de protocolos de transporte multipunto fiable 

    Solera Delgado, Marta (Date of defense: 2006-11-13)

    Las comunicaciones multipunto ofrecen, tanto a usuarios como a proveedores, mayor eficiencia, permitiendo desarrollar e implantar nuevos servicios. Para poder desplegarlos adecuadamente sobre la redes de comunicaciones, ...

    Control logic distribution trade-offs in software-defined wireless networks 

    Osman, Mohamad (Date of defense: 2022-10-07)

    The SDN (Software-Defined Networks) architecture separates the data and the control planes of the networks. It logically centralizes the control of a network in a central point that is an SDN controller, which acts as a ...

    Control strategy and predictive methods for performance and component lifetime enhancement in vehicle powertrain 

    Martín Prieto, Álvaro (Date of defense: 2023-04-26)

    (Enlish) In the past years, battery electric vehicles have been gaining market share. These vehicles are progressively seen as a viable option by customers of all kind. However, although manufacturers and research institutions ...

    Data analytics for mobile traffic in 5G networks using machine learning techniques 

    Trinh, Hoang Duy (Date of defense: 2020-06-10)

    This thesis collects the research works I pursued as Ph.D. candidate at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC). Most of the work has been accomplished at the Mobile Network Department Centre Tecnologic de ...

    Design and performance evaluation of smart dissemination of emergence messages in vehicular ad-hoc networks 

    Iza Paredes, Christian (Date of defense: 2018-07-12)

    The growing demand to improve road safety and optimize road traffic has generated great interest in vehicular ad-hoc network (VANETs). Serious traffic accidents can cause financial losses, physical disability, and even ...

    Design of secure mobile payment protocols for restricted connectivity scenarios 

    Téllez Isaac, Jesús Augusto (Date of defense: 2012-09-12)

    The emergence of mobile and wireless networks made posible the extensión of electronic commerce to a new area of research: mobile commerce called m-commerce, which includes mobile payment), that refers to any e-commerce ...

    Desing and Evaluation of Certificate Revocation Systems 

    Muñoz Tapia, José L. (José Luis) (Date of defense: 2003-11-26)

    Este trabajo presenta tanto el estado del arte como un análisis de los principales sistemas de revocación de certificados digitales. El hecho de comprender bien el mecanismo de revocación de un certificado es importante ...