Carrizo, Carlos E. (Date of defense: 2019-09-20)
Massive amounts of information are created daily in commercial fields like earth observation, that must be downloaded to earth ground stations in the short time of a satellite pass. Today, much of the ...
Pablos Hernández, Miriam (Date of defense: 2016-10-03)
The first three of a series of new generation satellites operating at L-band microwave frequencies have been launch in the last decade. L-band is particularly sensitive to the presence of water content ...
Serra Puertas, Jorge (Date of defense: 2016-11-11)
We are living in a data deluge era where the dimensionality of the data gathered by inexpensive sensors is growing at a fast pace, whereas the availability of independent samples of the observed data ...
Kalalas, Charalampos (Date of defense: 2018-07-19)
The next-generation electric power system, known as smart grid, relies on a robust and reliable underlying communication infrastructure to improve the efficiency of electricity distribution. Cellular ...
Bousia, Alexandra (Date of defense: 2016-02-18)
The rapid expansion of mobile services and the emerging demand for multimedia applications have led to an impressive traffic growth. To this end, Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) seek to extend their ...
Moysen, Jessica (Date of defense: 2016-10-07)
Nowadays, the rapid growth of mobile communications is changing the world towards a fully connected society. Current 4G networks account for almost half of total mobile traffic, and in the forthcoming ...
Zenginis, Ioannis (Date of defense: 2018-12-20)
Energy and transportation sectors are going through major changes as a result of technological advances, depletion of fossil fuels and climate change. With regard to the energy sector, the future smart ...
Deng, Xinping (Date of defense: 2016-07-26)
This thesis is dedicated to the study of texture analysis and physical interpretation of PolSAR data. As the starting point, a complete survey of the statistical models for PolSAR data is conducted. All ...
Shrestha, Deep (Date of defense: 2019-09-13)
Power line communication (PLC) is considered as the most viable enabler of the smart grid. PLC exploits the power line infrastructure for data transmission and provides an economical communication ...
Mayoral López de Lerma, Arturo (Date of defense: 2019-07-25)
Telecom operators networks' management and control remains partitioned by technology, equipment supplier and networking layer. In some segments, the network operations are highly costly due to the need ...