Departament de Teoria del Senyal i Comunicacions: Recent submissions
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Millimeter wave band reconfigurable circuits (from 30 to above 100 GHz) in BiCMOS-MEMS technology
Actualment hi ha un ús creixent de dispositius mòbils i de la necessitat d’informació i, per això, cada vegada es necessiten sistemes sense fils amb majors velocitats de dades i més amplada de banda. A més, els sistemes ...
Impulsive noise cancellation and channel estimation in power line communication systems
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 backbone to support the ...
Advanced adaptive compensation system for free-space optical communications
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 collected information ...
Closed form analysis of Poisson cellular networks: a stochastic geometry approach
Ultra dense networks (UDNs) allow for efficient spatial reuse of the spectrum, giving rise to substantial capacity and power gains. In order to exploit those gains, tractable mathematical models need to be derived, allowing ...
Next generation optical access networks and coexistence with legacy PONs
Nowadays, Fiber-to-the-Home is one of the most promising solutions to provide broadband services in access networks. However, the fiber is inefficiently used as most of the deployed systems are still based on Time Division ...
Lidar remote sensing and co-operative observations: Processing methods and aerosol radiative transfer
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, Antennas, Microwaves and ...
Network virtualization in next generation cellular networks
The complexity of operation and management of emerging cellular networks significantly increases, as they evolve to correspond to increasing QoS needs, data rates and diversity of offered services. Thus critical challenges ...
Doppler wind LIDAR systems data processing and applications : an overview towards developing the new generation of wind remote-sensing sensors for off-shore wind farms
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 ...
On the detection of ionospheric waves, relationship with earthquakes and tsunamis
The research of this thesis addresses the detection and characterization of ionospheric waves and its application to traveling ionospheric disturbances (TIDs) induced by the natural events, such as earthquakes and tsunamis. ...
Advanced discontinuous integral-equation schemes for the versatile electromagnetic analysis of complex structures
Les Equacions Integrals superficials més importants són l'Equació de Camp Elèctric (EFIE), per a l'anàlisi de la dispersió electromagnètica d'objectes conductors perfectes (PEC), i la formulació Poggio–Miller–Chang–Harr ...
Computer vision beyond the visible : image understanding through language
In the past decade, deep neural networks have revolutionized computer vision. High performing deep neural architectures trained for visual recognition tasks have pushed the field towards methods relying on learned image ...
Traffic offloading in future, heterogeneous mobile networks
The rise of third-party content providers and the introduction of numerous applications has been driving the growth of mobile data traffic in the past few years. In order to tackle this challenge, Mobile Network Operators ...
Energy and cost management in shared heterogeneous network deployments
During the recent years, a huge augmentation of the data traffic volume has been noticed, while a further steep increase is expected in the following years. As a result, questions have been raised over the years about the ...
Satellite integration in 5G : contribution on network architectures and traffic engineering solutions for hybrid satellite-terrestrial mobile backhauling
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 non- Geostationary ...
Programmable DSP-enabled multi-adaptive optical transceivers based on OFDM technology for software defined networks
The dynamic behavior of the traffic demand, due to the advent of technologies such as cloud services or Internet of Things (IoT), is increasing. In fact, heterogeneous connections with different characteristics (bandwidth ...
Optimal sizing and operation planning of microgrids and operation analysis of charging stations for electric vehicles
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 grid is expected to ...
Radio resource management techniques for QoS provision in 5G networks
As numerous mobile applications and over-the-top (OTT) services emerge and mobile Internet connectivity becomes ubiquitous, the provision of high quality of service (QoS) is more challenging for mobile network operators ...
Radio frequency interference detection and mitigation techniques for navigation and Earth observation
Radio-Frequency Interference (RFI) signals are undesired signals that degrade or disrupt the performance of a wireless receiver. RFI signals can be troublesome for any receiver, but they are especially threatening for ...
Applications of L-band missions for environmental research
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 environmental changes. ...
Semantic and generic object segmentation for scene analysis using RGB-D Data
In this thesis, we study RGB-D based segmentation problems from different perspectives in terms of the input data. Apart from the basic photometric and geometric information contained in the RGB-D data, also semantic and ...
