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 ...
Machado Sánchez, Sergio (Date of defense: 2016-02-03)
The peer-to-peer (P2P) overlay networks are distribution topologies that take advantage of the ability that their nodes have to forward the information that they receive. For the particular case of video ...
Brugués de la Torre, Albert (Date of defense: 2016-05-13)
The ageing of the world's population combined with unhealthy lifestyles are contributing to a major prevalence of chronic diseases. This scenario poses the challenge of providing good healthcare services ...
Yazdani, Arash (Date of defense: 2016-07-07)
Recent developments in optical communication systems have increased the performance of optical networks. Low attenuation fiber optics, high spectral purity lasers and optical amplifiers, among others, ...
Bartoli, Andrea (Date of defense: 2013-06-18)
Nowadays, the great diffusion of advanced devices, such as smart-phones, has shown that there is a growing trend to rely on new technologies to generate and/or support progress; the society is clearly ...
Miozzo, Marco (Date of defense: 2018-09-18)
The trend for the next generation of cellular network, the Fifth Generation (5G), predicts a 1000x increase in the capacity demand with respect to 4G, which leads to new infrastructure deployments. To ...
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 ...
Urquiza Aguiar, Luis Felipe (Date of defense: 2016-04-05)
One of the main concerns of the cities' administration is mobility management. In Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), pedestrians, vehicles and public transportation systems could share information ...
Jiménez Agudelo, Yury Andrea (Date of defense: 2016-07-06)
The simplicity of Internet design has led to enormous growth and innovation. In recent decades several network technologies, services and applications have appeared, which demand specific network ...
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 ...