Energy efficient cooperative node management for wireless multimedia sensor networks 

    Alaei, Mohammad (Date of defense: 2013-06-27)

    In Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs) the lifetime of battery operated visual nodes is limited by their energy consumption, which is proportional to the energy required for sensing, processing, and transmitting ...

    Enhancing the efficiency and practicality of software transactional memory on massively multithreaded systems 

    Kestor, Gökçen (Date of defense: 2013-03-22)

    Chip Multithreading (CMT) processors promise to deliver higher performance by running more than one stream of instructions in parallel. To exploit CMT's capabilities, programmers have to parallelize their applications, ...

    File system metadata virtualization 

    Artiaga Amouroux, Ernest (Date of defense: 2014-01-17)

    The advance of computing systems has brought new ways to use and access the stored data that push the architecture of traditional file systems to its limits, making them inadequate to handle the new needs. Current challenges ...

    Real-time high-performance computing for embedded control systems 

    Calderón Torres, Alejandro Josué (Date of defense: 2022-07-21)

    The real-time control systems industry is moving towards the consolidation of multiple computing systems into fewer and more powerful ones, aiming for a reduction in size, weight, and power. The increasing demand for higher ...

    Towards LoRa mesh networks for the IoT 

    Pueyo Centelles, Roger (Date of defense: 2021-11-12)

    There are several LPWAN radio technologies providing wireless communication to the billions of connected devices that form the so-called IoT. Among them, LoRa has emerged in recent years as a popular solution for low power ...