Mikians, Jakub (Date of defense: 2016-01-20)
The growth of the Internet impacts multiple areas of the world economy, and it has become a permanent part of the economic landscape both at the macro- and at microeconomic level. On-line traffic and ...
Upasani, Gaurang R (Date of defense: 2016-02-01)
The sustained drive to downsize the transistors has reached a point where device sensitivity against transient faults due to neutron and alpha particle strikes a.k.a soft errors has moved to the forefront ...
Yazdani Aminabadi, Reza (Date of defense: 2019-07-25)
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is undoubtedly one of the most important and interesting applications in the cutting-edge era of Deep-learning deployment, especially in the mobile segment. Fast and ...
Aguilà Vilà, Jordi (Date of defense: 2016-02-18)
This thesis has been carried out in the industrial environment external to the University, as an industrial PhD. The results of this PhD have been tested, validated, and implemented in the production ...
Karakostas, Vasileios (Date of defense: 2016-04-18)
Virtual memory improves programmer productivity, enhances process security, and increases memory utilization. However, virtual memory requires an address translation from the virtual to the physical ...
Garrido Platero, Luis Angel (Date of defense: 2019-11-26)
Cloud infrastructures have become indispensable in our daily lives with the rise of cloud-based services offered by companies like Facebook, Google, Amazon and many others. These cloud infrastructures ...
Ramírez, Wilson (Date of defense: 2014-11-18)
In recent years, the advent of new Future Internet (FI) applications is creating ever-demanding requirements. These requirements are pushing network carriers for high transport capacity, energy efficiency, ...
Brankovic, Aleksandar (Date of defense: 2015-03-17)
Recently the community started looking into Hardware/Software (HW/SW) co-designed processors as potential solutions to move towards the less power consuming and the less complex designs. Unlike other ...
Milić, Uglješa (Date of defense: 2017-11-22)
From single-core CPUs to detachable compute accelerators, supercomputers made a tremendous progress by using available transistors on chip and specializing hardware for a given type of computation. ...
Font Aragonès, Xavier (Date of defense: 2013-05-30)
Biometric Recognition refers to the automatic identification of a person based on his or her anatomical characteristic or modality (i.e., fingerprint, palmprint, face) or behavioural (i.e., signature) ...