González López, Giselle (Date of defense: 2021-06-29)
The design of wireless sensors for operation embedded in a medium with high losses creates a series of additional constraints that should be taken into consideration at design stage to enhance sensor ...
Chaparro Danon, David (Date of defense: 2018-10-15)
Human activity leads to environmental changes which threaten the vegetation. Global warm ing trends, deforestation and land cover, or modified Earth's surface albedo, are sorne examples of these ...
Ballesteros Sánchez, Christian (Date of defense: 2022-07-21)
Massive antenna architectures and millimeter-wave bands appear on the horizon as the enabling technologies of future broadband wireless links, promising unprecedented spectral efficiency and data rates. ...
Salek Shishavan, Farzin (Date of defense: 2020-12-14)
The present thesis has three major thrusts: the first thrust presents a broad investigation of asymptotic binary hypothesis testing, when each hypothesis represents asymptotically many independent ...
Durán Martínez, Israel (Date of defense: 2017-11-20)
This work has been formally undertaken within the frame of the scholarship number BES-2012-053917 of 1 December 2012, by the "Secretario de Estado de Investigación del Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad" ...
Vázquez Gallego, Francisco (Date of defense: 2016-07-19)
This thesis aims at contributing to overcome two of the main challenges for the deployment of M2M networks in data collection scenarios for the Internet of Things: the management of massive numbers of ...
Bellot Pujalte, Pau (Date of defense: 2017-05-08)
A cell is a the basic structural and functional unit of every living thing, it is protein-based an that regulates itself. The cell eats to stay alive, it grows and develops; reacting to the environment, ...
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" ...
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, ...
Mendoza Montoya, Jesús Fabián (Date of defense: 2019-04-24)
The recent technological advances in the satellite domain such as the use of High Throughput Satellites (HTS) with throughput rates that are magnitudes higher than with previous ones, or the use of large ...