A deep dive into Ethereum's PoS transition: protocol design choices and their empirical unexpected limitations 

    Cortes Goicoechea, Mikel (Date of defense: 2024-09-26)

    (English) The advent of the internet, marked by pivotal developments such as the launch of Arpanet and the standardization of HTTP, has irrevocably changed the fabric of modern society. Centralized platforms like Microsoft, ...

    Admission control in mobile cellular networks: design, performance evaluation and analysis 

    Vesselinova Vassileva, Natalia (Date of defense: 2012-04-13)

    Key to the success of the mobile telecommunication systems is provision of mobility and more specifically, continuity of communication sessions on the move. However, from engineering point of view the cobination of scarce ...

    AI/ML for multi-technology RAN automation with full and limited infrastructure support 

    Ali, Zoraze (Date of defense: 2023-11-15)

    (English) This thesis studies and proposes solutions to some of the most relevant challenges in the Radio Access Network (RAN) management arising from its evolution beyond 5G and towards 6G. The tackled problems are selected ...

    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 ...

    Architectures and protocols for sub-wavelength optical networks: contributions to connectionless and connection-oriented data transport 

    Triay Marquès, Joan (Date of defense: 2011-10-07)

    La ràpida evolució d’Internet i l’àmplia gamma de noves aplicacions (per exemple, multimèdia, videoconferència, jocs en línia, etc.) ha fomentat canvis revolucionaris en la manera com ens comuniquem. A més, algunes d’aquestes ...

    Cellular and Wi-Fi technologies evolution: from complementarity to competition 

    Bojovic, Biljana (Date of defense: 2022-01-12)

    This PhD thesis has the characteristic to span over a long time because while working on it, I was working as a research engineer at CTTC with highly demanding development duties. This has delayed the deposit more than I ...

    Certificate status information distribution and validation in vehicular networks 

    Hernández Gañán, Carlos (Date of defense: 2013-09-04)

    Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) are emerging as an functional technology for providing a wide range of applications to vehicles and passengers. Ensuring secure functioning is one of the prerequisites for deploying ...

    Contribución a la protección de agentes móviles frente a hosts maliciosos. Detección de ataques y políticas de castigo 

    Esparza Martín, Óscar (Date of defense: 2004-07-07)

    Este trabajo presenta tanto el estado del arte como el análisis de las principales propuestas de protección de agentes móviles frente a los ataques de la plataforma de ejecución. La comprensión del problema de los hosts ...

    Contribución a la seguridad en servicios multimedia. Aplicación a entornos multicast 

    Pegueroles, Josep R. (Josep Rafael) (Date of defense: 2003-11-21)

    Usually multimedia services can be divided into two different phases: access to the service and content distribution. The first phase usually takes place over reliable transport protocols and unicast connections. The second ...

    Contribución a la transmisión de vídeo en redes IP con calidad de servicio 

    Alins Delgado, Juanjo (Date of defense: 2004-09-17)

    Hoy en día, entre los servicios más solicitados por los usuarios en las redes de comunicaciones, se encuentran aquellos que incorporan información multimedia. En Internet, es habitual que un gran número de páginas web ...

    Contribución a la validación de certificados en arquitecturas de autenticación y autorización 

    Satizábal Echevarria, Isabel Cristina (Date of defense: 2007-03-09)

    Authentication and authorisation architectures based on certificates have not been widely accepted due to their cost, inflexibility and difficult management.<br/>The complexity of the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is ...

    Contribución al desarrollo de un entorno seguro de m-commerce 

    Ponce Vásquez, Diego Arturo (Date of defense: 2002-07-02)

    La exitosa implantación de la telefonía móvil a escala mundial presenta una muy importante oportunidad para la expansión del comercio electrónico sobre entornos inalámbricos. El comercio electrónico para móviles, m-Commerce, ...

    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 ...

    Contribución al estudio de mejora de prestaciones del protocolo TCP en diferentes entornos 

    Calveras, Anna (Date of defense: 2000-01-19)

    Internet, la mayor red de ordenadores del mundo, formada por millones de terminales repartidos por todo el planeta, está basada en la arquitectura de protocolos TCP/IP, cuyas aplicaciones más utilizadas son, sin duda, el ...

    Contribución al estudio y diseño de mecanismos avanzados de servicio de flujos semi-elásticos en internet con garantías de calidad de servicio extremo a extremo 

    Postigo Boix, Marcos (Date of defense: 2003-04-25)

    Los servicios y aplicaciones ofrecidos en Internet demandan, con mayor frecuencia, un determinado nivel de servicio para su correcto funcionamiento. Esto supone el desarrollo de mecanismos que permitan ofrecer calidad de ...

    Contribución al modelado y caracterización de nodos en redes de banda ancha. Aplicación al multiplexor inverso ATM. 

    Aguilar Igartua, Mónica (Date of defense: 2000-01-21)

    El acceso a las redes ATM y el dimensionado de sus recursos son cuestiones clave ya que cada vez hay una mayor demanda de ancho de banda por parte de los usuarios. Sin embargo, se necesitan alternativas económicamente ...

    Contribution to design a communication framework for vehicular ad hoc networks in urban scenarios 

    Tripp Barba, Carolina (Date of defense: 2013-06-20)

    The constant mobility of people, the growing need to be always connected, the large number of vehicles that nowadays can be found in the roads and the advances in technology make Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) be a ...

    Contribution to privacy-enhancing tecnologies for machine learning applications 

    Rodríguez Hoyos, Ana Fernanda (Date of defense: 2020-10-21)

    For some time now, big data applications have been enabling revolutionary innovation in every aspect of our daily life by taking advantage of lots of data generated from the interactions of users with technology. Supported ...

    Contribution to reliable end-to-end communication over 5G networks using advanced techniques 

    Poorzare, Reza (Date of defense: 2022-09-05)

    5G cellular communication, especially with its hugely available bandwidth provided by millimeter-wave, is a promising technology to fulfill the coming high demand for vast data rates. These networks can support new use ...

    Contribution to smart management services for electric vehicle charging using vehicular networks 

    Barbecho Bautista, Pablo Andrés (Date of defense: 2022-05-19)

    (English) The most promising solution to reduce carbon emissions due to transportation is migrating from fossil-fuel vehicles to electric vehicles (EVs). In recent years, the decisive shift of drivers to use EVs has been ...