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 ...
Lluch-Ariet, Magí (Date of defense: 2016-07-22)
The understanding of certain data often requires the collection of similar data from different places to be analysed and interpreted. Multi-agent systems (MAS), interoperability standards (DICOM, HL7 ...
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 ...
Ferrer Riera, Jordi (Date of defense: 2016-01-20)
Virtualization is defined as the process consisting of building a virtual resource on top of one or several physical resources, depending on the selected paradigm: aggregation or partitioning. From the ...
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, ...
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 ...