Departament de Teoria del Senyal i Comunicacions: Recent submissions
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Collective dynamics of bulk metallic glasses studied by molecular dynamics simulations
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 have excellent ...
Wideband cognitive radio: monitoring, detection and sparse noise subspace communication
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 higher data rates. ...
Application of DInSAR techniques to the monitoring of ground deformations
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 have been chosen, ...
Communication rates for fading channels with imperfect channel-state information
The present thesis studies information rates for reliable transmission of information over fading channels in the realistic situation where the receiver has only imperfect channel-state knowledge. Of particular interest ...
Lidar and S-band radar profiling of the atmosphere : adaptive processing for boundary-layer monitoring, optical-parameter error estimation, and application cases
This Ph.D. thesis addresses remote sensing of the atmosphere by means of lidar and S-band clear-air weather radar, and related data signal processing. Active remote sensing by means of these instruments offers unprecedented ...
Transmission strategies for wireless energy harvesting nodes
Over the last few decades, transistor miniaturization has enabled a tremendous increase in the processing capability of commercial electronic devices, which, combined with the reduction of production costs, has tremendously ...
Multidimensional and temporal SAR data representation and processing based on binary partition trees
This thesis deals with the processing of different types of multidimensional SAR data for distinct applications. Instead of handling the original pixels of the image, which correspond to very local information and are ...
Distributed demand-side optimization in the smart grid
The modern power grid is facing major challenges in the transition to a low-carbon energy sector. The growing energy demand and environmental concerns require carefully revisiting how electricity is generated, transmitted, ...
Hierarchical information representation and efficient classification of gene expression microarray data
In the field of computational biology, microarryas are used to measure the activity of thousands of genes at once and create a global picture of cellular function. Microarrays allow scientists to analyze expression of many ...
Dynamic routing and spectrum allocation in elastic optical networks
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 not stop here due ...
Contribution to spatial bias mitigation in interferometric radiometers devoted to Earth observation : application to the SMOS mission
This work has been undertaken within the frame of the FPI scholarship BES-2009-028505 of 30/07/2009, by the "Secretario de Estado de Investigación del Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación", related to the project ...
Beamforming design and power control for spectrum sharing systems
In order to provide wireless services for the current demand of high data rate mobile applications, more spectrally efficient systems are needed. As a matter of fact, the current wireless systems are limited by a frequency ...
Monocular depth estimation in images and sequences using occlusion cues
When humans observe a scene, they are able to perfectly distinguish the different parts composing it. Moreover, humans can easily reconstruct the spatial position of these parts and conceive a consistent structure. The ...
Compressive sensing based candidate detector and its applications to spectrum sensing and through-the-wall radar imaging
Signal acquisition is a main topic in signal processing. The well-known Shannon-Nyquist theorem lies at the heart of any conventional analog to digital converters stating that any signal has to be sampled with a constant ...
Improving statistical machine translation through adaptation and learning
With the arrival of free on-line machine translation (MT) systems, came the possibility to improve automatic translations with the help of daily users. One of the methods to achieve such improvements is to ask to users ...
Multi-antenna multi-frequency microwave imaging systems for biomedical applications
Medical imaging refers to several different technologies that are used to view the human body in order to diagnose, monitor, or treat medical conditions. Each type of technology gives different information about the area ...
Multimodal microwave filters
This thesis presents the conception, design and implementation of new topologies of multimodal microwave resonators and filters, using a combination of uniplanar technologies such as coplanar waveguide (CPW), coplanar ...
Radio and computing resource management in SDR clouds
The aim of this thesis is defining and developing the concept of an efficient management of radio and computing resources in an SDR cloud. The SDR cloud breaks with today's cellular architecture. A set of distributed ...
On the resource abstraction, partitioning and composition for virtual GMPLS-controlled multi-layer optical networks
Virtual optical networking supports the dynamic provisioning of dedicated networks over the same network infrastructure, which has received a lot of attention by network providers. The stringent network requirements (e.g., ...
Channel selection and reverberation-robust automatic speech recognition
If speech is acquired by a close-talking microphone in a controlled and noise-free environment, current state-of-the-art recognition systems often show an acceptable error rate. The use of close-talking microphones, however, ...
