Jha, Sudhanshu S. (Date of defense: 2016-10-05)
As the transistor budgets outpace the power envelope (the power-wall issue), new architectural and microarchitectural techniques are needed to improve, or at least maintain, the power efficiency of ...
Castillo Villar, Emilio (Date of defense: 2019-04-29)
The increasing parallelism levels in modern computing systems has extolled the need for a holistic vision when designing multiprocessor architectures taking in account the needs of the programming models ...
Dimopoulos, Georgios (Date of defense: 2018-11-27)
On-line video streaming is an ever evolving ecosystem of services and technologies, where content providers are on a constant race to satisfy the users' demand for richer content and higher bitrate ...
Radulović, Milan (Date of defense: 2019-05-07)
A major contributor to the deployment and operational costs of a large-scale high-performance computing (HPC) clusters is the memory system. In terms of system performance it is one of the most critical ...
Pérez Vela, Alba (Date of defense: 2018-11-09)
Operator’s transport networks are becoming increasingly more complex due to the large number of network layers needed to support the ever increasing number of new services (e.g., video-on-demand, social ...
Pavlović, Milan (Date of defense: 2016-02-05)
Most computing systems are heavily dependent on their main memories, as their primary storage, or as an intermediate cache for slower storage systems (HDDs). The capacity of memory systems, as well as ...
Gifre Renom, Lluís (Date of defense: 2016-06-03)
New generation applications, such as cloud computing or video distribution, can run in a telecom cloud infrastructure where the datacenters (DCs) of telecom operators are integrated in their networks ...
AlSkaif, Tarek (Date of defense: 2016-07-26)
The need for energy conservation, grid reliability, and improved operational efficiencies have led to the changes from conventional electricity grids which have “blind” and manual operations, along with ...
Morales Alcaide, Fernando (Date of defense: 2018-06-15)
Next-generation internet services such as live TV and video on demand require high bandwidth and ultra-low latency. The ever-increasing volume, dynamicity and stringent requirements of these services’ ...
Grass, Thomas (Date of defense: 2017-10-09)
Since the early 2000s, computer systems have seen a transition from single-core to multi-core systems. While single-core systems included only one processor core on a chip, current multi-core processors ...