Chacin Martínez, Pablo Jesus (Date of defense: 2011-07-21)
Modern service-oriented applications demand the ability to adapt to changing conditions and unexpected situations while maintaining a required QoS. Existing self-adaptation approaches seem inadequate ...
Xhagjika, Vamis (Date of defense: 2017-05-29)
Distributed Real-Time Media Processing refers to classes of highly distributed, delay no-tolerant applications that account for the majority of the data traffic generated in the world today. Real-Time ...
López Berga, Ester (Date of defense: 2017-07-10)
Wireless community networks (WCN) are specially vulnerable to routing forwarding failures because of their intrinsic characteristics: use of inexpensive hardware that can be easily accessed; managed in ...
Neumann, Axel (Date of defense: 2017-12-20)
Community Networks (CN) are naturally open and decentralized structures, that grow organically with the addition of heterogeneous network devices, contributed and configured as needed by their participants. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Meseguer Pallarès, Roc (Date of defense: 2012-03-02)
In collaborative learning scenarios, the use of computers and communication networks to facilitate collaboration is becoming popular, the Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL). In face-to-face ...
León Gutiérrez, Xavier (Date of defense: 2013-07-05)
Large scale computing infrastructures need scalable and effi cient resource allocation mechanisms to ful l the requirements of its participants and applications while the whole system is regulated to ...
Dimogerontakis, Emmanouil (Date of defense: 2017-05-26)
The majority of the world's population does not have any or adequate Internet access. This implies that the Internet cannot provide universal service, reaching everyone without discrimination. Global ...
Baig Viñas, Roger (Date of defense: 2019-11-18)
In the search and development of more participatory models for infrastructure development and management, in this dissertation, we investigate models for the financing, deployment, and operation of ...