Iqbal, Masab (Date of defense: 2023-03-24)
(English) Optical communication systems are widely adopted and responsible for transporting data traffic from access to metro to core networks supporting society’s information and communication functions. ...
Sarrigiannis, Ioannis (Date of defense: 2023-02-10)
(English) The fifth generation (5G) of mobile communications urges software defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) to join forces with the multi-access edge computing (MEC) ...
Llorens Carrodeguas, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2023-01-26)
(English) With the development of industry and society, new verticals have emerged such as Industry 4.0, cooperative sensing, and massive IoT. These verticals require network robustness and availability ...
Leyva Pupo, Irian (Date of defense: 2023-01-26)
(English) This doctoral thesis focuses on the design of strategies (i.e., exact and heuristic-based methods) to optimize the placement and reconfiguration of user plane functions (UPFs) in 5G and beyond ...
Guerra Gómez, Rolando (Date of defense: 2023-05-19)
(English) The Fifth-Generation (5G) of cellular networks significantly increases the performance and flexibility of the offered services to users and service providers. The strict network requirement ...
Nicolás Álvarez, Jorge (Date of defense: 2023-05-16)
(English) Future Geosynchronous Synthetic Aperture Radar (GEOSAR) missions will provide permanent monitoring of continental areas of the planet with revisit times of less than 24 h. Several GEOSAR ...
Safari, Pooyan (Date of defense: 2023-05-19)
(English) The thesis presents various contributions to the field of speaker recognition. In the first part of the thesis, the focus is on unsupervised methods for speaker recognition. This includes a ...
Silva, Marcos Paulo Aráujo da (Date of defense: 2023-06-29)
(English) Monitoring the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) is a matter of interest for many applications, such as weather forecasting, pollutant-dispersion models and wind energy. The ABL is the most ...
Salcedo Bosch, Andreu (Date of defense: 2023-06-30)
(English) Remote sensing of the atmosphere is widely used by the wind energy industry to both assess future wind farms deployment sites as well as to improve their operation. With the rising interest ...
Aguilar Romero, Sergio (Date of defense: 2023-07-06)
(English) The main objective of this thesis is contributing to IPv6 support over Low Rate Low Power Wireless Networks (LRLPWNs). One family of LRLPWNs is Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWANs), which ...