Pablos Hernández, Miriam (Date of defense: 2016-10-03)
The first three of a series of new generation satellites operating at L-band microwave frequencies have been launch in the last decade. L-band is particularly sensitive to the presence of water content ...
Serra Puertas, Jorge (Date of defense: 2016-11-11)
We are living in a data deluge era where the dimensionality of the data gathered by inexpensive sensors is growing at a fast pace, whereas the availability of independent samples of the observed data ...
Bousia, Alexandra (Date of defense: 2016-02-18)
The rapid expansion of mobile services and the emerging demand for multimedia applications have led to an impressive traffic growth. To this end, Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) seek to extend their ...
Moragrega Estrany, Anna (Date of defense: 2016-02-04)
In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), the ability of sensor nodes to know its position is an enabler for a wide variety of applications for monitoring, control, and automation. Often, sensor data is ...
Moysen, Jessica (Date of defense: 2016-10-07)
Nowadays, the rapid growth of mobile communications is changing the world towards a fully connected society. Current 4G networks account for almost half of total mobile traffic, and in the forthcoming ...
Deng, Xinping (Date of defense: 2016-07-26)
This thesis is dedicated to the study of texture analysis and physical interpretation of PolSAR data. As the starting point, a complete survey of the statistical models for PolSAR data is conducted. All ...
Koutlia, Aikaterini (Date of defense: 2016-05-18)
The new era of mobile communications is dictated by the user demand for robust and high speed connections, data hungry applications and seamless connectivity. Operators and researchers all over the world ...
Varas González, David (Date of defense: 2016-11-14)
In this thesis, we exploit the hierarchical information associated with images to tackle two fundamental problems of computer vision: video object segmentation and video segmentation. In the first part ...
Miliotis, Vasileios (Date of defense: 2016-03-11)
Mobile data offloading has been proposed as a solution for the network congestion problem that is continuously aggravating due to the increase in mobile data demand. The concept of offloading refers to ...
Tan, Onur (Date of defense: 2016-07-08)
The smart grid (SG) is the enhancement of the traditional electricity grid that allows bidirectional flow of electricity and information through the integration of advanced monitoring, communication and ...