Event Category: PhD Defense

PhD Thesis defense: Characterization of mobile network services to assess the impact of network slicing in a nationwide scenario

Several businesses are nowadays becoming more and more aware of the potential that lies beneath Big Data. From social media...

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PhD Thesis defense: Initial access and beam-steering mechanisms for mmWave wireless systems

Future millimeter-wave networks will support very high densities of devices and access points. This vastly increases the overhead required for...

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PhD Thesis defense: Design And Development Of A Worldwide-Scale Measurement Methodology And Its Application In Network Measurements And Online Advertising Auditing

Online advertising has evolved into a key component of the Internet we know today. It is a very complex ecosystem...

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PhD Thesis defense: Optimization Methods for Efficient Relay Techniques in Cellular Networks

Fast advance in the design of 5G cellular networks has motivated a lot of research that addresses challenges given by...

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PhD Thesis defense: Time-based Indoor Positioning and Context Information using Commodity WiFi chipsets

In the last years indoor localization and applications that use positioning information have attracted a lot of attention from the...

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PhD Thesis defense: Visible Light Communication Networks for IoT and its Application

Visible Light Communication(VLC) has emerged in the last years as a new way to communicate. Using the existing lighting infrastructure,...

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PhD Thesis defense: Deep Learning solutions for next generation slicing-aware mobile networks

By leveraging on novel concepts of virtualization and programmability, future 5G Net- works are expected to be reliable, high-performing and...

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PhD Thesis defense: Leveraging online advertising platforms to measure and characterize digital inequalities

As the Internet is becoming a fundamental aspect of the society serving as a de facto platform for social and...

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PhD Thesis defense: Optimization of Energy Efficiency in Data and Web Hosting Centers

This thesis tackles the optimization of energy efficiency in data centers in terms of network and server utilization.

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PhD Thesis defense: Achieving Reliability and Fairness in Online Task Computing Environments

We consider online task computing environments such as volunteer computing platforms running on BOINC (e.g., SETI@home) and crowdsourcing platforms such as Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. We model the computations as an Internet-based task computing system under the master-worker paradigm. A master entity sends tasks across the Internet, to worker entities willing to perform a computational task. 

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