Events agenda

31 May
2017

PhD Thesis defense: Analyzing the Behavior of Students Regarding Learning Activities, Badges, and Academic Dishonesty in MOOC Environments

José Antonio Ruipérez-Valiente, PhD Student, IMDEA Networks Institute and University Carlos III of Madrid
The 'big data' scene has brought new improvement opportunities to most products and services, including education. Web-based learning has become very widespread over the last decade, which in conjunction with the MOOC phenomenon, it has enabled the collection of large and rich data samples regarding the interaction of students with these educational online environments. 
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30 May
2017

Big Crisis Data - an exciting frontier for applied computing

Carlos Castillo, Director of Research for Data Science, Eurecat - Technology Centre of Catalonia, Spain
Social media is an invaluable source of time-critical information during a crisis. However, emergency response and humanitarian relief organizations that would like to use this information struggle with an avalanche of social media messages, exceeding their capacity to process them.
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26 May
2017

Network Cloudification: SDN-NFV and 5G-MEC with Edge and Fog Computing

Ying-Dar Lin, IEEE Fellow, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, ONF Research Associate; Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials; Distinguished Professor of National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
The second wave of cloud computing, named network cloudification, in the forms of SDN (Software Defined Networking), NFV (Network Function Virtualization), and 5G-MEC (Mobile Edge Computing), is to centralize and virtualize networking into data centers.
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25 May
2017

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

Evgenia Christoforou, PhD Student, IMDEA Networks Institute and University Carlos III of Madrid
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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12 May
2017

PhD Thesis defense: Prediction-based techniques for the optimization of mobile networks

Nicola Bui, PhD Student & Research Engineer, IMDEA Networks Institute and University Carlos III of Madrid
Mobile cellular networks are complex system whose behavior is characterized by the superposition of several random phenomena, most of which, related to human activities, such as mobility, communications and network usage. However, when observed in their totality, the many individual components merge into more deterministic patterns and trends start to be identifiable and predictable.
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11 May
2017

Robustness and Privacy in Mobile and Wireless Systems

Guevara Noubir, Professor, College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University, USA
Wireless communication is not only a key technology underlying the mobile revolution, it is also used to connect, monitor, alert, and interact with physical infrastructures such as smart-grids, transportation networks, and even implantable devices. 
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8 May
2017

Boosting 5G Research through Industry-Academic Partnerships

Arturo Azcorra, Director of IMDEA Networks, Professor at University Carlos III of Madrid, Vice-President of 5TONIC
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3 May
2017

Three open problems in Network Caching: cost reduction, video delivery and encrypted content

Andrea Araldo, Postdoctoral Researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
Cisco estimates that by 2019 traffic will be 64x than in 2005. Network caching can help cope with this traffic deluge as, by replicating content closer to the users, it reduces bandwidth consumption.
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3 May
2017

Innovation through Joint Industry-Academic Partnerships

Dr. Nada Golmie, Chief, Dr. Haris Gačanin, Dr. Jeff Foerster, Dr. Arturo Azcorra, and Mr. Paul Challoner
5TONIC Vice-President Arturo Azcorra participates in a panel entitled ‘Innovation through Joint Industry-Academic Partnerships’ at IEEE INFOCOM. At this panel he presented the work of 5TONIC as an example of the successful partnership between industry and academia currently driving innovation and research in communication networks in Europe.
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26 Apr
2017

Crowdsourcing Spectrum Data Decoding

Roberto Calvo-Palomino, PhD Student, IMDEA Networks Institute, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
Crowdsourced signal monitoring systems are gaining attention for capturing the wireless spectrum at large geographical scale. Yet, most of the current systems are still limited to simple power spectrum measurements reported by each sensor.
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