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' ...
León Gaixas, Sergio (Date of defense: 2018-06-29)
With an increasing number of devices and heterogeneous distributed applications, it is becoming evident that service delivered by the current Internet fall short to supply the actual Quality of Service ...
Segura Salvador, Albert (Date of defense: 2021-02-18)
Graph processing is an established and prominent domain that is the foundation of new emerging applications in areas such as Data Analytics and Machine Learning, empowering applications such as road ...
Manzoor, Jawad (Date of defense: 2019-06-13)
The Internet is evolving from the perspective of both usage and connectivity. The meteoric rise of smartphones has not only facilitated connectivity for the masses, it has also increased their appetite ...
Rumipamba Zambrano, Rubén Darío (Date of defense: 2019-03-14)
The ever demanding bandwidth requirements for supporting emerging telecom services such as ultra-high-definition video streaming, cloud computing, connected car, virtual/augmented reality, etc., bring ...
Amaral, Marcelo (Date of defense: 2019-04-29)
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 ...
Torrents Lapuerta, Martí (Date of defense: 2016-11-28)
Recently, high performance processor designs have evolved toward Chip-Multiprocessor (CMP) architectures to deal with instruction level parallelism limitations and, more important, to manage the power ...
Elshazly, Hatem Mohamed Abdelfattah Eid (Date of defense: 2021-01-28)
This thesis contributes from the perspective of task-based programming models to the efforts of optimizing I/O intensive applications. Throughout this thesis, we propose programming model abstractions ...
Rasol, Kurdman Abdulrahman (Date of defense: 2022-01-28)
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) separates the control plane from the data plane. The initial SDN approach involves a single centralized controller, which may not scale properly as a network grows in ...
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 ...