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 ...
Vázquez Rodas, Andrés Marcelo (Date of defense: 2015-02-13)
Nowadays, people expectations for ubiquitous connectivity is continuously growing. Cities are now moving towards the smart city paradigm. Electricity companies aims to become part of smart grids. Internet ...
García Davis, Ernesto J. (Date of defense: 2019-06-19)
Advances in wireless technologies and the rapid development of integrated electronics have made wireless sensor networks (WSN) one of the key technologies of the Internet of Things (IoT). Thanks to the ...
Lemus Cárdenas, Leticia (Date of defense: 2020-07-22)
Society is aware that the ecological predation of the planet is due to human activity. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out actions to reverse this damage. Besides, the trend of population growth in ...
Galarza Osio, Miguel Ángel (Date of defense: 2020-01-31)
The PhD research project is framed within the plan of industrial doctorates of the “Generalitat de Catalunya”. During the investigation, most of the work was carried out at the facilities of the vehicle ...
Fernández Fernández, Adriana (Date of defense: 2018-06-29)
Achieving energy efficiency has recently become a key topic of networking research due to the ever-increasing power consumption and CO2 emissions generated by large data networks. This problem is becoming ...
Tomàs-Buliart, Joan (Date of defense: 2020-03-04)
The main characteristic of fingerprinting codes is the need of high error-correction capacity due to the fact that they are designed to avoid collusion attacks which will damage many symbols from the ...
Darroudi, Seyed Mahdi (Date of defense: 2020-09-29)
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) has become a popular Internet of Things (IoT) technology. However, it was originally designed to only support the star topology. This PhD thesis investigates and evaluates ...
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 ...