Merlano Duncan, Juan Carlos (Date of defense: 2012-07-26)
Precise phase synchronization of clock or local oscillator signals over distributed systems is a recurring requirement in the design of a wide range of systems, with applications in telecommunications ...
Raschellà, Alessandro (Date of defense: 2015-05-27)
Cognitive Radio (CR) paradigm represents an innovative solution to mitigate the spectrum scarcity problem by enabling Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA), defined in order to conciliate the existing conflicts ...
Chakraborty, Rupayan (Date of defense: 2013-12-18)
Automatic acoustic scene analysis is a complex task that involves several functionalities: detection (time), localization (space), separation, recognition, etc. This thesis focuses on both acoustic event ...
Valles Sales, Araceli (Date of defense: 2014-09-25)
The development of new materials impacts on all branches of engineering and, in particular, in aerospace engineering. Metallic glasses (MG) are relatively newcomers to the world of materials science and ...
Tessitore, Serena (Date of defense: 2014-05-09)
The aim of the present thesis has been to test the applicability of the innovative Advanced DInSAR techniques in the natural risk mitigation related to subsidence phenomena. In particular, two test sites ...
Font Segura, Josep (Date of defense: 2014-07-24)
We are surrounded by electronic devices that take advantage of wireless technologies, from our computer mice, which require little amounts of information, to our cellphones, which demand increasingly ...
Capdevila Cascante, Santiago (Date of defense: 2013-02-15)
Many scientific, industrial and medical applications require the measurement of different physical parameters in order to collect information about the spatially distributed status of some process. Very ...
Iglesias González, Rubén (Date of defense: 2015-12-04)
Every year, with the onset of spring rains and snow melting, landslides represent one of the major threats to human life and infrastructures in natural environments. In this context, different surveying ...
González Gambau, Verónica (Date of defense: 2012-09-05)
The variability of soil moisture and ocean salinity controls the continuous exchange of water between the oceans, the atmosphere and the land. Therefore, the accurate and periodic measurements of these ...
Játiva Espinoza, René (Date of defense: 2017-04-06)
Mobile subscriber positioning is an issue in permanent revision due to the new possibilities of relation that the knowledge of the position introduces, among users and an increasing number of devices. ...