Blanco Botana, Luis (Date of defense: 2017-07-22)
This dissertation deals with different subset selection problems in wireless communications systems. These type of problems have a combinatorial nature, which makes them computationally intractable for ...
Jauk, Igor (Date of defense: 2017-09-12)
Nowadays, especially with the upswing of neural networks, speech synthesis is almost totally data driven. The goal of this thesis is to provide methods for automatic and unsupervised learning from data ...
Yahyavi, Mehran (Date of defense: 2016-03-18)
Power amplifiers (PAs) are one of the most crucial elements in wireless standards becasue they are the most power hungry subsystems. These elements have to face an important issue, which is the power ...
Torrellas Socastro, Marc (Date of defense: 2016-02-10)
The emergence of very capable mobile terminals, e.g. smartphones or tablets, has dramatically increased the demand of wireless data traffic in recent years. Current growth forecasts elucidate that ...
Calvo Fullana, Miguel (Date of defense: 2017-07-25)
Long thought to be an unattainable ambition, self-sustainable and green-powered wireless networks are rapidly becoming a reality. This is driven by recent hardware improvements in what is known as Energy ...
Zewoudie, Abraham Woubie (Date of defense: 2017-09-20)
Speaker diarization has received several research attentions over the last decade. Among the different domains of speaker diarization, diarization in meeting domain is the most challenging one. It usually ...
Alonso Arroyo, Alberto (Date of defense: 2016-11-10)
This PhD thesis researches the use of passive remote sensing techniques using signals transmitted from the navigation satellites (GNSS) in order to retrieve different geophysical parameters. The thesis ...
González Haro, Cristina (Date of defense: 2015-05-22)
Ocean currents are a key component to understanding many oceanic and climatic phenomena and knowledge of them is crucial for both navigation and operational applications. Therefore, a key problem in ...
Saeed, Umar (Date of defense: 2016-07-22)
The Atmospheric Boundary Layer Height (ABLH) is an important parameter in weather forecasting, meteorology, avionics, and air-quality and dispersion models. Local development of the Atmospheric Boundary ...
Aravanis, Alexios (Date of defense: 2019-09-09)
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 ...