Ntontin, Konstantinos (Date of defense: 2015-11-03)
As the data rate demands of the cellular users increase, together with their number, it is expected that unprecedented capacity demands should be met in wireless networks in the forthcoming years. ...
Ghavidel, Ali (Date of defense: 2015-07-14)
In this Ph. D. dissertation the electromagnetic bias in GNSS-R (Global Navigation Satellite Systems Reflectometry) altimetry has been studied. GNSS-R altimetry is a new type of system that uses navigation ...
Escayola Elias, Francesc Xavier (Date of defense: 2015-12-11)
In recent decades, the industry of communications has acquired huge significance, and nowadays constitutes an essential tool for the society information. Thus, the exponential growth in demand of ...
Martín Alemany, Francisco (Date of defense: 2015-07-14)
This PhD dissertation is focused on the use of the opportunity signals from the Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), that scatter-off the Earth's surface for perform ocean mesoscale altimetry ...
Espinosa Espinosa, Moisés Isaac (Date of defense: 2015-11-23)
This thesis presents reconfigurable microwave discriminators used for the development of reconfigurable measurement circuits with high miniaturization, low power consumption, reduced weight and cost. The ...
Mesodiakaki, Agapi (Date of defense: 2015-11-09)
The main objective of this thesis is to propose and evaluate medium access layer algorithms, that will exploit different types of cognition to provide energy and spectrum efficiency enhancement. In ...
Joroughi, Vahid (Date of defense: 2015-12-02)
Satellite communication will play a central role towards fulfilling next generation 5G communication requirements. As a matter of fact, anytime-anywhere connectivity cannot be conceived without the ...
Padilla Díaz, Alberto (Date of defense: 2015-11-11)
Connect, upload, download, share and transfer anything at anytime and anywhere is not a futuristic vision and is indeed a real demand on current and future wireless and fixed communication systems. From ...
Makhoul Varona, Eduardo (Date of defense: 2015-03-26)
The explosive growth of shipping traffic all over the World, with around three quarters of the total trade goods and crude oil transported by sea, has raised newly emerging concerns (economical, ecological, ...
Polyàkova, Tatyana V. (Date of defense: 2015-03-13)
This thesis focuses on the phonetic transcription in the framework of text-to-speech conversion, especially on improving adaptability, reliability and multilingual support in the phonetic module. The ...