Santoyo González, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2020-09-08)
This thesis focuses on how to optimize the placement of the Edge Computing infrastructure for upcoming 5G networks. To this aim, the core contributions of this research are twofold: 1) a novel heuristic ...
Ludovici, Alessandro (Date of defense: 2014-07-07)
This thesis focuses on the study of low-resource demanding protocols, communication techniques and software solutions to evaluate, optimise and implement Web service in WSNs. We start analysing the Web ...
Hamouda, Ahmed Mohamed Abdelaty Elmekkawi (Date of defense: 2021-09-30)
The upcoming Beyond Fifth Generation networks aim to meet network services characterized by low latency and high reliability among others in different slices to provide a high-quality user experience. ...
Caubet Fernández, Juan (Date of defense: 2016-01-25)
Structured Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks were proposed to solve routing problems of big distributed infrastructures. But the research community has been questioning their security for years. Most prior ...
Hejja, Khaled (Date of defense: 2019-07-15)
Most of the algorithms that solved the resource allocation problem, used to apply greedy algorithms to select the physical nodes and shortest paths to select the physical edges, without sufficient ...
Tripp Barba, Carolina (Date of defense: 2013-06-20)
The constant mobility of people, the growing need to be always connected, the large number of vehicles that nowadays can be found in the roads and the advances in technology make Vehicular Ad hoc Networks ...
Guasch Castelló, Sandra (Date of defense: 2016-02-05)
This PhD Thesis is the fruit of the job of the author as a researcher at Scytl Secure Electronic Voting, as well as the collaboration with Paz Morillo, from the Department of Applied Mathematics at UPC ...
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 ...
Rodríguez Hoyos, Ana Fernanda (Date of defense: 2020-10-21)
For some time now, big data applications have been enabling revolutionary innovation in every aspect of our daily life by taking advantage of lots of data generated from the interactions of users with ...
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, ...