Valencia Domènech, Enric (Date of defense: 2012-10-17)
The knowledge of sea surface salinity (SSS) is a key issue to understand and monitor the Earth¿s water cycle. Accurate and systematic measurement of SSS was not possible until the ESA¿s Soil Moisture ...
Jové Casulleras, Roger (Date of defense: 2015-02-17)
The submitted Ph.D. thesis is a contribution to the development of pico-satellites and nano-satellites for Earth Observation and Technology Demonstrators. Development of satellites with a mass from 1 ...
Berbakov, Lazar (Date of defense: 2013-07-11)
In recent years, wireless sensor networks have attracted considerable attention in the research community. Their development, induced by technological advances in microelectronics, wireless networking ...
Espinosa Duró, Virginia (Date of defense: 2013-06-14)
Face recognition (FR) has been extensively studied, due to both scientific fundamental challenges and current and potential applications where human identification is needed. FR systems have the benefits ...
Caus López, Màrius (Date of defense: 2013-12-18)
From the perspective of increasingly data rate requirements in mobile communications, it is deemed necessary to do further research so that the future goals can be reached. To that end, the radio-based ...
Ramírez Jávega, Francisco (Date of defense: 2016-01-20)
The main goal of this thesis is to develop lossless compression schemes for analog and binary sources. All the considered compression schemes have as common feature that the encoder can be represented ...
Barrios Porras, Ricardo (Date of defense: 2013-05-17)
Free-space optical (FSO) communications is drawing increasing attention as a promising technology to overcome bandwidth shortage, of an evermore crowded wireless marketplace. Currently radio-frequency ...
Sayyad Khodashenas, Pouria (Date of defense: 2014-06-05)
Triggered by emerging services such as high-definition video distribution or social networking, the IP traffic volume has been exponentially increasing to date. Furthermore, the traffic growth rate will ...
Mekikis, Prodromos-Vasileios (Date of defense: 2017-11-13)
Undeniably, the progress in wireless networks during the last two decades is extraordinary. However, the ever-increasing upward trend in the numbers of wireless devices that will overwhelm every field ...
Casamitjana Díaz, Adrià (Date of defense: 2019-12-20)
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that constitutes the most common dementia pathology. It represents a global epidemic that expands exponentially as the life expectancy increases ...