Mekikis, Prodromos-Vasileios (Date of defense: 2017-11-13)
Undeniably, the progress in wireless networks during the last two decades is extraordinary. However, the ever-increasing upward trend in the numbers of wireless devices that will overwhelm every field ...
Casamitjana Díaz, Adrià (Date of defense: 2019-12-20)
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that constitutes the most common dementia pathology. It represents a global epidemic that expands exponentially as the life expectancy increases ...
Sekulic, Ivan (Date of defense: 2019-06-13)
Les Equacions Integrals superficials més importants són l'Equació de Camp Elèctric (EFIE), per a l'anàlisi de la dispersió electromagnètica d'objectes conductors perfectes (PEC), i la formulació ...
Lagunas Targarona, Eva (Date of defense: 2014-03-07)
Signal acquisition is a main topic in signal processing. The well-known Shannon-Nyquist theorem lies at the heart of any conventional analog to digital converters stating that any signal has to be sampled ...
Pérez Mayos, Javier (Date of defense: 2012-07-03)
The objective of this dissertation is to study and develop techniques to decompose the speech signal into its two main components: voice source and vocal tract. Our main efforts are on the glottal pulse ...
Centolanza, Giuseppe (Date of defense: 2015-10-23)
The Earth is continuously monitored by sensors capable of providing diversified information about several phenomena. In particular Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is able to observe the Earth in all-day ...
Merlano Duncan, Juan Carlos (Date of defense: 2012-07-26)
Precise phase synchronization of clock or local oscillator signals over distributed systems is a recurring requirement in the design of a wide range of systems, with applications in telecommunications ...
Raschellà, Alessandro (Date of defense: 2015-05-27)
Cognitive Radio (CR) paradigm represents an innovative solution to mitigate the spectrum scarcity problem by enabling Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA), defined in order to conciliate the existing conflicts ...
Chakraborty, Rupayan (Date of defense: 2013-12-18)
Automatic acoustic scene analysis is a complex task that involves several functionalities: detection (time), localization (space), separation, recognition, etc. This thesis focuses on both acoustic event ...
Valles Sales, Araceli (Date of defense: 2014-09-25)
The development of new materials impacts on all branches of engineering and, in particular, in aerospace engineering. Metallic glasses (MG) are relatively newcomers to the world of materials science and ...