García Villegas, Eduardo (Date of defense: 2010-02-18)
Les xarxes d'àrea local sense fils (WLANs), principalment les basades en les diverses versions de les normes IEEE 802.11, i més concretament, aquelles operant en mode infraestructura (ús de punts d'accés ...
Piovesan, Nicola (Date of defense: 2020-06-05)
During the last decades, mobile network operators have witnessed an exponential increase in the traffic demand, mainly due to the high request of services from a huge amount of users. The trend is of a ...
Galal Mahmoud Ibrahim, Akram (Date of defense: 2022-10-10)
(English) A nano-network is a communication network at the nano-scale between nano-devices. Nanodevices face certain challenges in functionalities, because of limitations in their processing capabilities ...
Reñé Vicente, Sergi (Date of defense: 2015-06-26)
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) has impulsed the vehicular communications at the present time. The vehicular communications field is a hot research topic and is attracting a great interest in ...
Betzler, August (Date of defense: 2015-07-07)
Over the last decades, wireless technologies have become an important part of our daily lives. A plentitude of new types of networks based on wireless technologies have emerged, often replacing wired ...
Oller i Bosch, Joaquim (Date of defense: 2015-03-06)
During the recent years, the research related to Wake-up Radio (WuR) systems has gained noticeable interest. In WuR systems, a node initiating a communication first sends a Wake-up Call (WuC) by means ...
Temesgene, Dagnachew Azene (Date of defense: 2020-07-21)
Due to the rapid growth of mobile data traffic, future mobile networks are expected to support at least 1000 times more capacity than 4G systems. This trend leads to an increasing energy demand from ...
Ciurana Adell, Marc (Date of defense: 2010-07-15)
Location techniques that satisfy the requirements of advanced Location-Based Services (LBS) in environments where GPS fails are needed, therefore accurate indoor positioning is becoming increasingly ...
Trinh, Hoang Duy (Date of defense: 2020-06-10)
This thesis collects the research works I pursued as Ph.D. candidate at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC). Most of the work has been accomplished at the Mobile Network Department Centre ...
Ferragut Martínez-Vara de Rey, Jaime (Date of defense: 2014-07-29)
The growth in user demand for higher mobile data rates is driving Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) and network infrastructure vendors towards the adoption of innovative solutions in areas that span from ...