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    Flexible architecture for the future internet scalability of SDN control plane 

    Rasol, Kurdman Abdulrahman (Date of defense: 2022-01-28)

    Software-Defined Networking (SDN) separates the control plane from the data plane. The initial SDN approach involves a single centralized controller, which may not scale properly as a network grows in size. Distributed ...

    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 ...

    End-to-end network service orchestration in heterogeneous domains for next-generation mobile networks 

    Baranda Hortigüela, Jorge (Date of defense: 2021-11-09)

    5G marks the beginning of a deep revolution in the mobile network ecosystem, transitioning to a network of services to satisfy the demands of new players, the vertical industries. This revolution implies a redesign of the ...

    Convergence of deep learning and high performance computing: challenges and solutions 

    Njoroge Kahira, Albert (Date of defense: 2021-07-30)

    Deep Learning has achieved outstanding results in many fields and led to groundbreaking discoveries. With the steady increase in datasets and model sizes, there has been a recent surge in Machine Learning applications in ...

    On scalable, reconfigurable, and intelligent metasurfaces 

    Taghvaee, Hamidreza (Date of defense: 2021-07-21)

    Sixth Generation (6G) of wireless networks will be even more heterogeneous and dense as compared to Fifth Generation (5G) and other legacy networks. Thus, the 6G architecture will need to be adapted to serve the ever-evolving ...

    Next generation overlay networks : security, trust, and deployment challenges 

    Paillissé Vilanova, Jordi (Date of defense: 2021-07-23)

    Overlay networks are a technique to build a new network on top of an existing one. They are a key tool to add functionality to existing networks, and are used in different layers of the Internet stack for a wide variety ...

    Breaking host-centric management of task-based parallel programming models 

    Bosch Pons, Jaume (Date of defense: 2021-07-21)

    Heterogeneous platforms had become popular to increase the computational power of the systems within a constrained power budget. They are present in several systems, from embedded platforms and mobile devices to high-end ...

    Novel techniques to improve the performance and the energy of vector architectures 

    Barredo Ferreira, Adrián (Date of defense: 2021-07-19)

    The rate of annual data generation grows exponentially. At the same time, there is a high demand to analyze that information quickly. In the past, every processor generation came with a substantial frequency increase, ...

    Scheduling and resource management solutions for the scalable and efficient design of today's and tomorrow's HPC machines 

    D'Amico, Marco (Date of defense: 2021-06-10)

    In recent years, high-performance computing research became essential in pushing the boundaries of what men can know, predict, achieve, and understand in the experimented reality. HPC Workloads grow in size and complexity ...

    Image and video object segmentation in low supervision scenarios 

    Bellver Bueno, Míriam (Date of defense: 2021-03-26)

    Computer vision plays a key role in Artificial Intelligence because of the rich semantic information contained in pixels and the ubiquity of cameras nowadays. Multimedia content is on a rise since social networks have such ...

    On the design and development of programming models for exascale systems 

    Maroñas, Marcos (Date of defense: 2021-02-17)

    High Performance Computing (HPC) systems have been evolving over time to adapt to the scientific community requirements. We are currently approaching to the Exascale era. Exascale systems will incorporate a large number ...

    Learning workload behaviour models from monitored time-series for resource estimation towards data center optimization 

    Buchaca Prats, David (Date of defense: 2021-01-14)

    In recent years there has been an extraordinary growth of the demand of Cloud Computing resources executed in Data Centers. Modern Data Centers are complex systems that need management. As distributed computing systems ...

    Energy-efficient architectures for recurrent neural networks 

    Silfa, Franyell (Date of defense: 2021-01-25)

    Deep Learning algorithms have been remarkably successful in applications such as Automatic Speech Recognition and Machine Translation. Thus, these kinds of applications are ubiquitous in our lives and are found in a plethora ...

    High-performance and energy-efficient irregular graph processing on GPU architectures 

    Segura Salvador, Albert (Date of defense: 2021-02-18)

    Graph processing is an established and prominent domain that is the foundation of new emerging applications in areas such as Data Analytics and Machine Learning, empowering applications such as road navigation, social ...

    Non-functional considerations of time-randomized processor architectures 

    Trilla Rodríguez, David (Date of defense: 2020-12-04)

    Critical Real-Time Embedded Systems (CRTES) are the subset of embedded systems with timing constraints whose miss behavior can endanger human lives or expensive equipment. To provide evidence of correctness, CRTES are ...

    Definition of new WAN paradigms enabled by smart measurements 

    Ciaccia, Francesco (Date of defense: 2020-12-04)

    Nowadays massive amounts of data are being moved over the Internet thanks to data-hungry applications, Big Data, and multimedia content. Combined with a reduction in cost and augmented reliability for high-speed broadband ...

    Runtime-assisted coherent caching 

    Caheny, Paul (Date of defense: 2020-12-22)

    In the middle of the 2000s a fundamental change of course occurred in computer architecture because techniques such as frequency scaling and instruction level parallelism were providing rapidly diminishing returns. Since ...

    Deep learning that scales: leveraging compute and data 

    Campos Camúñez, Víctor (Date of defense: 2020-12-22)

    Deep learning has revolutionized the field of artificial intelligence in the past decade. Although the development of these techniques spans over several years, the recent advent of deep learning is explained by an increased ...

    Runtime-assisted optimizations in the on-chip memory hierarchy 

    Dimić, Vladimir (Date of defense: 2020-11-27)

    Following Moore's Law, the number of transistors on chip has been increasing exponentially, which has led to the increasing complexity of modern processors. As a result, the efficient programming of such systems has become ...

    Low-power accelerators for cognitive computing 

    Riera Villanueva, Marc (Date of defense: 2020-10-09)

    Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved tremendous success for cognitive applications, and are especially efficient in classification and decision making problems such as speech recognition or machine translation. Mobile ...