NOTE: In July of 2008 I moved to Telefónica I+D (Research and Development). The information contained here can be out of date.

This page is only kept for convenience, thanks to the kindness of LADyR and GSyC members.


Luis Rodero-Merino Web Page.
Last mofified: October 2008.
All contents under the GNU Free Documentation License, V 1.2.

I am member of the LADyR and GSyC research groups, and teacher at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos.
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Contact Info

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Teaching

Some of the subjects I taught at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos:

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science (Doctor en Informática) - 2007 at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos.
Master of Computer Engineering (Ingeniero en Informática) - 2000 at Universidad de Valladolid.
Bachelor of Computer Engineering (Ingeniero Técnico en Informática de Gestión) - 1998 at Universidad de Valladolid.

Stays

Research stay of three months at the Department of Computer Science of University College London, (September 2003 - December 2003).
Undergraduate (Erasmus Program) - Six months at the Sligo Institute of Technology (October 1997 - March 1998).
Undergraduate (Intercampus Program) - Two months at the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional Francisco Morazán (August 1999 - September 1999).

Professional Bio

Nowadays, I am a Junior Researcher at Telefónica I+D.
Teaching assistant at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (October 2001 - July 2008).
Design Engineer at Ericsson Spain S.A., Research and Development Area (October 2000 - September 2001).
Research Fellowship at Telefónica Research and Development S.A. (March 2000 - September 2000).

Research

Research Topics

Distributed systems, p2p computing, grid computing, wireless networks, free software.

Thesis

Title: "Self-Adaptation Mechanisms for Efficient Resource Location in Peer-to-Peer Systems".

Abstract: One of the main open issues in P2P systems research is how to efficiently locate resources. Recent works conclude that searches by random walks can outperform other mechanisms like flooding, also demanding less resources (bandwidth and processing power). It has been also observed that the efficiency of random walks is strongly related with the topology of the overlay network.
The main contributions of this thesis are: Content: The contents of this thesis are released under the GNU Free Documentation License, V 1.2. You can download a PDF version , or browse a HTML Version.

Simulations code: All experiments were run using our own simulation code, implemented in the Java language. A .tgz file containing the DANTE's simulator source code (.java), binary files (.class) and a configuration sample file can be found here. Please note this code is released under the GPL v2.0 license.

Publications

Journal Papers

Book Chapters

Contributions to International Conferences

Contributions to National Spanish Conferences

Technical Reports

Research Projects

I am member of the following research projects:

AUTONOMIC - Autonomic reliable distributed and high performance systems
Financed by: Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid.
Participants: Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
2006 - 2009.

Auto-organización en Sistemas de Comunicación Emergentes
Financed by: Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia.
Participants: Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña.
2005 - 2008.

eMAMUTI Extensión de MAMUTI (Módulo de Transmisión Multimedia) Para Sistemas Inalámbricos
Financed by: Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología (now Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia).
Participants: Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
2001 - 2004.

TIER: Transmisión Inalámbrica en Robots Móviles
Financed by: Universidad Rey Juan Carlos.
Participants: Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
2002.

Other Webpages

Some other pages related with me.

My LinkedIn public profile.
My collection of photos at flickr.