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    Optimizing IETF multimedia signaling protocols and architectures in 3GPP networks : an evolutionary approach 

    Viamonte Solé, David (Date of defense: 2019-06-16)

    Signaling in Next Generation IP-based networks heavily relies in the family of multimedia signaling protocols defined by IETF. Two of these signaling protocols are RTSP and SIP, which are text-based, client-server, ...

    Contribución al diseño de protocolos de encaminamiento en redes móviles ad-hoc basados en reputación 

    Guaya Delgado, Lenin (Date of defense: 2019-06-13)

    The mobile ad-hoc networks are part of the next generation access networks (Next Generation Networking o NGN), "all-IP" networks facing the great scientific and technical challenge that is the ubiquitous computing The ...

    Contribution to the publish/subscribe communication model for the development of ubiquitous services in wireless sensor networks 

    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 ability of these ...

    Contributions to topology discovery, self-healing and VNF placement in software-defined and virtualized networks 

    Ochoa Aday, Leonardo (Date of defense: 2019-01-30)

    The evolution of information and communication technologies (e.g. cloud computing, the Internet of Things (IoT) and 5G, among others) has enabled a large market of applications and network services for a massive number of ...

    Contributions towards softwarization and energy saving in passive optical networks 

    Khalili, Hamzeh (Date of defense: 2018-09-20)

    Ths thesis is a result of contributions to optimize and improve the network management systme and power consumption in Passive Optical Network (PON). Passive Optical Network elements such as Optical Line Terminal (OLT) and ...

    Energy sustainability of next generation cellular networks through learning techniques 

    Miozzo, Marco (Date of defense: 2018-09-18)

    The trend for the next generation of cellular network, the Fifth Generation (5G), predicts a 1000x increase in the capacity demand with respect to 4G, which leads to new infrastructure deployments. To this respect, it is ...

    Design and performance evaluation of smart dissemination of emergence messages in vehicular ad-hoc networks 

    Iza Paredes, Christian (Date of defense: 2018-07-12)

    The growing demand to improve road safety and optimize road traffic has generated great interest in vehicular ad-hoc network (VANETs). Serious traffic accidents can cause financial losses, physical disability, and even ...

    Energy-aware routing techniques for software-defined networks 

    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 even more concerning ...

    Analysis, modelling and protection of online private data 

    Puglisi, Silvia (Date of defense: 2017-06-20)

    Online communications generate a consistent amount of data flowing between users, services and applications. This information results from the interactions among different parties, and once collected, it is used for a ...

    Contributions to the evolution of next generation WLANs 

    Afaqui, Muhammad Shahwaiz (Date of defense: 2017-06-28)

    The explosive growth in usage of IEEE 802.11 based WLAN networks has resulted in dense deployments in diverse environments and has made the concept of anytime - anywhere data connectivity a realm of commercial reality. The ...

    Contributions to optimal detection in OTDM and OCDMA optical receivers 

    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, are systems that have ...

    Contribution to the design of VANET routing protocols for realistic urban environments 

    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 and react to any ...

    Secure identity management in structured peer-to-peer (P2P) networks 

    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 work in security ...

    Scalability and robustness in software-defined networking (SDN) 

    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 requirements for their ...

    Contributions to interoperability, scalability and formalization of personal health systems 

    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 to that people ...

    Contributions to efficient and secure exchange of networked clinical data : the MOSAIC system 

    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 or EN13606) and ...

    Topologías para la distribución de contenidos en redes de comunicación 

    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 transmission using ...

    Individual verifiability in electronic voting 

    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 and Alex Escala, PhD ...

    Contributions to the routing of traffic flows in multi-hop IEEE 802.11 wireless networks 

    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 significant challenge. ...

    Contributions to provide a QoS-aware self-configured framework for video-streaming services over ad hoc networks 

    Mezher, Ahmad Mohamad (Date of defense: 2016-04-22)

    Ad hoc networks have attracted much attention from the research community over the last years and important technical advances have risen as a consequence. These networks are foreseen as an important kind of next generation ...