Call Barreiro, Aaron (Date of defense: 2022-11-07)
(English) Traditional data centers consist of computing nodes that possess all the resources physically attached. When there was the need to deal with more significant demands, the solution has been to ...
Basta, Christine Raouf Saad (Date of defense: 2022-10-14)
(English) Gender bias is a dangerous form of social bias impacting an essential group of people. The effect of gender bias is propagated to our data, causing the accuracy of the predictions in models ...
Tabatabaeimehr, Fatemehsadat (Date of defense: 2022-06-02)
Network automation has been long time envisioned. In fact, the Telecommunications Management Network (TMN), defined by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), is a hierarchy of management layers ...
González Romero, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2022-03-07)
The thesis starts by giving an introduction to the game of Scrabble, then mentions state-of-the-art computer Scrabble programs and presents some characteristics of our developed Scrabble engine Heuri. ...
Sequeira, Diogo Gonçalo (Date of defense: 2022-10-31)
(English) Optical communications have been extensively investigated and enhanced in the last decades. Nowadays, they are responsible to transport all the data traffic generated around the world, from ...
Batbayar, Khulan (Date of defense: 2022-02-07)
Internet access is still unavailable to one-third of the world population due to the lack of infrastructure, high cost, and the digital divide. Many access-limited communities opt for shared Internet ...
Ríos Jerez, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2022-02-17)
In this thesis, we present a set of studies whose results have allowed us to analyze how to improve the realism, navigation, and behaviour of the avatars in an immersive virtual reality environment. In ...
Aguilar Mena, Jimmy (Date of defense: 2022-11-23)
(English) The dominant programming approach for scientific and industrial computing on clusters is MPI+X. While there are a variety of approaches within the node, denoted by the ``X'', Message Passing ...
Gutiérrez Torre, Alberto (Date of defense: 2022-11-22)
(English) In recent years IoT and Smart Cities have become a popular paradigm of computing that is based on network-enabled devices connected providing different functionalities, from sensor measures ...
Barzegar, Sima (Date of defense: 2022-06-03)
This Ph.D. thesis focuses on the reliable autonomous operation of multilayer optical networks. The first objective focuses on the reliability of the optical network and proposes methods for health ...