Programa de Doctorat en Teoria del Senyal i Comunicacions: Recent submissions
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Nonlinear modeling and characterization of SAW devices for communications systems
(English) Nowadays, worldwide booming growth in mobile devices puts a lot of pressure on the mobile communications technologies since an enormous amount of requirements, mainly focused on delivering enhanced mobile broadband ...
Opportunistic communications in large uncoordinated networks
(English) The increase of wireless devices offering high data rate services limits the coexistence of wireless systems sharing the same resources in a given geographical area because of inter-system interference. Therefore, ...
Technologies for injection molded antennas for mass production
(English) The deployment of 5G antenna infrastructure and the mandatory adoption of anti-collision radars for automotive cars will require large amount of antennas operating in the millimeter and sub-millimeter wavelength. ...
Quality of service, security and trustworthiness for network slices
(English) The telecommunications' systems are becoming much more intelligent and dynamic due to the expansion of the multiple network types (i.e., wired, wireless, Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud-based networks). Due ...
Evaluation of the surface impedance of ReBCO coated conductors and requirements for their use as beam screen materials for the FCC-hh
(English) The Future Circular Hadron Collider (FCC-hh) is a proposal for a 100-kilometre-long particle accelerator with collision energy substantially higher than previous colliders to expand the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ...
Gender bias in natural language processing
(English) Gender bias is a dangerous form of social bias impacting an essential group of people. The effect of gender bias is propagated to our data, causing the accuracy of the predictions in models to be different depending ...
Advanced methods for earth observation data synergy for geophysical parameter retrieval
The first part of the thesis focuses on the analysis of relevant factors to estimate the response time between satellite-based and in-situ soil moisture (SM) using a Dynamic Time Warping (DTW). DTW was applied to the SMOS ...
Synergistic optical and microwave remote sensing approaches for soil moisture mapping at high resolution
Soil moisture is an essential climate variable that plays a crucial role linking the Earth’s water, energy, and carbon cycles. It is responsible for the water exchange between the Earth’s surface and the atmosphere, and ...
Deriving vertical total electron content maps from SMOS full polarimetric data to compensate the Faraday rotation effect
The Faraday rotation is a geophysical effect that causes a rotation of the electromagnetic field components emitted by the Earth when it propagates through the ionosphere. It depends on the vertical total electron content ...
Energy-driven techniques for massive machine-type communications
In the last few years, a lot of effort has been put into the development of the fifth generation of cellular networks (5G). Given the vast heterogeneity of devices coexisting in these networks, new approaches have been ...
Mobile 5G millimeter-wave multi-antenna systems
Massive antenna architectures and millimeter-wave bands appear on the horizon as the enabling technologies of future broadband wireless links, promising unprecedented spectral efficiency and data rates. In the recently ...
Data and methods for a visual understanding of sign languages
Signed languages are complete and natural languages used as the first or preferred mode of communication by millions of people worldwide. However, they, unfortunately, continue to be marginalized languages. Designing, ...
Study and application of spectral monitoring techniques for optical network optimization
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 disaggregated paradigm. ...
Three dimensional temporal-spatial model based SAR algorithms for monitoring large gradient deformations in mining area
Firstly, an External Model Deformation Decomposition based Persistent Scatters Interferometry (EMDD-PSI) method has been proposed. This method first uses original interferograms to optimize the parameters of the external ...
Contribution to the modelling and evaluation of radio network slicing solutions in 5G
Network slicing is a key feature of 5G architecture that allows the partitioning of the network into multiple logical networks, known as network slices, where each of them is customised according to the specific needs of ...
Learning multilingual and multimodal representations with language-specific encoders and decoders for machine translation
This thesis aims to study different language-specific approaches for Multilingual Machine Translation without parameter sharing and their properties compared to the current state-of-the-art based on parameter-sharing. We ...
Allocation designs for massive multiple access with interference cancellation
In the transition towards the next generation of wireless technology systems, the increasing number of devices curbs the potential of current wireless networks to cope with such increases in network density. Wireless ...
Transmission impairments mitigation in next generation coherent optical access networks
Worldwide, the coherent technologies have revolutionized the optical communication systems, significantly increasing the capacity of the fiber channel owing to transmission of advanced modulation formats and effective ...
Machine learning assisted QoT estimation for optical networks optimization
The tremendous increase in data traffic has spurred a rapid evolution of the optical networks for a reliable, affordable, cost effective and scalable network infrastructure. To meet some of these requirements, network ...
Development of novel instruments and techniques for passive microwave remote sensing
Earth Observation using satellites has helped to better model our planet. The goal of such systems is to provide large data sets to help to understand the effects of our actions on the climate, to predict storms in near ...
