Programa de Doctorat en Teoria del Senyal i Comunicacions: Recent submissions
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Injection of linguistic knowledge into neural text generation models
Language is an organic construct. It emanates from the need for communication and changes through time, influenced by multiple factors. The resulting language structures are a mix of regular syntactic and morphological ...
From hypothesis testing of quantum channels to secret sharing
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 instances of a quantum ...
Design and performance analysis of advanced GNSS-R instruments back-end
GNSS reflectometry (GNSS-R) is a set of techniques that uses the reflected GNSS signals over the Earth’s surface as opportunity signals for remote sensing applications. In 1993, the European Space Agency (ESA) suggested ...
Design and implementation of an SDR-based multi-frequency ground-based SAR system
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has proven a valuable tool in the monitoring of the Earth, either at a global or local scales. SAR is a coherent radar system able to image extended areas with high resolution, and finds ...
DSP-based CW lidars for clouds and aerosol
This thesis aims at exploring the limits of low peak-power, low-cost, all-semiconductor, compact lidars (laser radars) for range-resolved remote sensing of atmospheric aerosols and clouds. The systems investigated are based ...
Parallel scalability of face detection in heterogeneous multithreaded architectures
Recently, facial recognition systems have become extremely popular and deployments of this technology are now ubiquitous. Applications ranging from access control to automated surveillance of video feeds rely on facial ...
Advanced signal processing techniques for robust state estimation applications in smart grids
Since their inception, more than one century ago, electrical grids have played the role of a critical infrastructure. During the majority of this time, power systems have not faced radical changes. In contrast, over the ...
Learning to extract features for 2D – 3D multimodal registration
The ability to capture depth information form an scene has greatly increased in the recent years. 3D sensors, traditionally high cost and low resolution sensors, are being democratized and 3D scans of indoor and outdoor ...
Spatial modulation schemes and modem architectures for millimeter wave radio systems
The rapid growth of wireless industry opens the door to several use cases such as internet of things and device-to-device communications, which require boosting the reliability and the spectral efficiency of the wireless ...
Resource optimization in SDN-based inter/intra data centre networks
Upon the demanding requirements brought by next-generation services, current network infrastructures are required to evolve in the way they manage different types of resources at the data layer. To this end, a set of novel ...
Advanced GNSS-R instruments for altimetric and scatterometric applications
This work is the result of more than eight years during a bachelor thesis, a master thesis, and the Ph.D. thesis dedicated to the development of the Microwave Interferometric Reflectometer (MIR) instrument. It summarizes ...
Radio resource management for V2X in cellular systems
The thesis focuses on the provision of cellular vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications, which have attracted great interest for 5G due to the potential of improving traffic safety and enabling new services related to ...
Design and optimization of metro-access networks supporting 5G services
The Internet data traffic constant growth caused by the popularization of cloud services, mobile and social networks, demand changes to the networks in order to enable scalable growth in traffic volume, while supporting a ...
Polar coding for the wiretap broadcast channel
In the next era of communications, where heterogeneous, asynchronous and ultra-low latency networks are drawn on the horizon, classical cryptography might be inadequate due to the excessive cost of maintaining a public-key ...
GNSS Signal processing and spatial diversity exploitation
Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) signals are broadly used for positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) in many different applications and use cases, Athough different PNT technologies are available, GNSS is ...
Efficient, end-to-end and self-supervised methods for speech processing and generation
Deep learning has affected the speech processing and generation fields in many directions. First, end-to-end architectures allow the direct injection and synthesis of waveform samples. Secondly, the exploration of efficient ...
Real-time digital signal processing for new wavelength-to-the-user optical access networks
Nowadays, optical access networks provide high capacity to end users with growing availability of multimedia contents that can be streamed to fixed or mobile devices. In this regard, one of the most flexible and low-cost ...
Contribution to dimensionality reduction of digital predistorter behavioral models for RF power amplifier linearization
The power efficiency and linearity of radio frequency (RF) power amplifiers (PAs) are critical in wireless communication systems. The main scope of PA designers is to build the RF PAs capable to maintain high efficiency ...
Cognition procedures for optical network design and optimization
Telecom carriers have to adapt their networks to accommodate a growing volume of users, services and traffic. Thus, they have to search a continuous maximization of efficiency and reduction in costs. This thesis identifies ...
Advanced pixel selection and optimization algorithms for Persistent Scatterer Interferometry (PSI)
Ground deformation measurements can provide valuable information for minimization of associated loss and damage caused by natural and environmental hazards. As a kind of remote sensing technique, Persistent Scatterer ...
