Mestres Sugrañes, Albert (Date of defense: 2017-12-12)
The research community has considered in the past the application of Machine Learning (ML) techniques to control and operate networks. A notable example is the Knowledge Plane proposed by D.Clark et al. ...
Khan, Amin M. (Date of defense: 2016-06-21)
Internet and communication technologies have lowered the costs for communities to collaborate, leading to new services like user-generated content and social computing, and through collaboration, ...
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 ...
Guisado Gámez, Joan (Date of defense: 2017-09-28)
Query expansion techniques aim at improving the results achieved by a user's query by means of introducing new expansion terms, called expansion features. Expansion features introduce new concepts that ...
Roca Marí, Damián (Date of defense: 2018-02-01)
The Internet of Things (IoT) promises a plethora of new services and applications supported by a wide range of devices that includes sensors and actuators. To reach its potential IoT must break down the ...
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 ...
Sinaeepourfard, Amir (Date of defense: 2017-11-18)
There is a vast amount of data being generated every day in the world with different formats, quality levels, etc. This new data, together with the archived historical data, constitute the seed for ...
Moragues Ginard, Margarida (Date of defense: 2016-01-22)
This thesis is about the stabilization of the numerical solution of the Euler and Navier- Stokes equations of compressible flow. When simulating numerically the flow equations, if no stabilization is ...