Henriquez Q., Carlos A. (Date of defense: 2014-03-07)
With the arrival of free on-line machine translation (MT) systems, came the possibility to improve automatic translations with the help of daily users. One of the methods to achieve such improvements ...
Miozzo, Marco (Date of defense: 2018-09-18)
The trend for the next generation of cellular network, the Fifth Generation (5G), predicts a 1000x increase in the capacity demand with respect to 4G, which leads to new infrastructure deployments. To ...
Pastorelli, Francesco (Date of defense: 2013-12-09)
In this century some of our main issues are energy shortage and pollution. This work will briefly describe these problems, proposing a plan of action combining energy saving and different sustainable ...
Iza Paredes, Christian (Date of defense: 2018-07-12)
The growing demand to improve road safety and optimize road traffic has generated great interest in vehicular ad-hoc network (VANETs). Serious traffic accidents can cause financial losses, physical ...
Caballero Diaz, Luis (Date of defense: 2017-06-16)
The demand of wind energy has considerably increased during the last decades. In order to fulfil this great energy demand, wind energy conversion systems (WECS) are designed to manage higher power ...
Hermoso Costa, Juan Ramón (Date of defense: 2012-07-17)
In lightning protection techniques a basic aspect is the identification of the impact point possible, which is determined by the evolution of the initial phase of the lightning, known as the stepped ...
Sales Zaragozá, Vicente (Date of defense: 2017-10-25)
A new passive optical network (PON) for access, making use of ultra-dense wavelength division multiplexing (UDWDM) by densely spacing channels by a few gigahertz and introducing the "wavelength-to-the-user" ...
Sala, Vicenç M. (Date of defense: 2014-12-12)
Class-D Amplification has been an absolute improvement in terms of electrical efficiency in audio amplification systems, but it has been during the first stabilization decade of this technology in the ...
Guede Fernández, Federico (Date of defense: 2018-09-06)
The adherence to a healthy lifestyle plays a key role for increasing life expectancy and living better. The main habits of healthy lifestyle are: physical activity, diet and sleep quality. Nowadays, ...
Barragán Cuesta, Rubén (Date of defense: 2019-07-05)
This Ph.D. thesis focuses on: (i) the design and integration of a polarimetric channel for the multi-spectral Raman lidar station of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Remote Sensing, ...