Department of Computer Architecture and Technology
Performance Evaluation of Interconnection Networks using Simulation: Tools and Case Studies
PhD Dissertation
Javier Navaridas Palma
Advisor : Prof. José Miguel Alonso
September, 2009
To the memory of my beloved Mother
To my girlfriend for her patience and support
To family and friends
Acknowledgements
There are so many people that helped and supported the author that an acknowledgements list citing them one by one would be almost infinite. Consequently, I will try to make this list as brief as possible:
To all the members of my research group, particularly to my advisor Prof. José Miguel Alonso for his guidance. To all the colleagues from several different institutions that helped developing collaborative works: The University of Cantabria, The University of Burgos, The Technical University of Catalonia, The University of Adelaide, The University of Manchester and Zurich IBM Research Lab. Author is especially grateful to the people from the University of Manchester and to the people from Zurich IBM Research Lab for giving me the invaluable experience of working in international environments, as well as for the received human support.
Most of the research work carried out for this dissertation was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, grants TIN2004 07440 C02 02 and TIN2007 68023 C02 02, and by the Basque Government grant IT 242 07. The author was supported by a doctoral grant of the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU.