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 ...
García Molina, José Antonio (Date of defense: 2020-02-14)
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 ...
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 ...
Onrubia Ibáñez, Raúl (Date of defense: 2020-03-13)
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. ...
Hueltes Escobar, Alberto (Date of defense: 2021-02-05)
The meteoric growth of the mobile communication market for the last three decades has been strongly related with the evolution of the electroacoustic (EA) filter technology. With way over 5 billion cell ...
Vincenzi, Matteo (Date of defense: 2022-07-18)
The explosion in data traffic, the physical resource constraints, and the insufficient financial incentives for deploying 5G networks, stress the need for a paradigm shift in network upgrades. Typically, ...
Locatelli, Fabiano (Date of defense: 2021-11-18)
One of the possible ways to address the constantly increasing amount of heterogeneous and variable internet traffic is the evolution of the current optical networks towards a more flexible, open, and ...
Osman, Mohamad (Date of defense: 2022-10-07)
The SDN (Software-Defined Networks) architecture separates the data and the control planes of the networks. It logically centralizes the control of a network in a central point that is an SDN controller, ...
Pascual De La Puente, Santiago (Date of defense: 2020-01-31)
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 ...
Santoyo González, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2020-09-08)
This thesis focuses on how to optimize the placement of the Edge Computing infrastructure for upcoming 5G networks. To this aim, the core contributions of this research are twofold: 1) a novel heuristic ...