Departament de Teoria del Senyal i Comunicacions
Recent Submissions
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Energy and cost management in shared heterogeneous network deployments
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2019-04-10)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessDuring the recent years, a huge augmentation of the data traffic volume has been noticed, while a further steep increase is expected in the following years. As a result, questions have been raised over the years about the ... -
Optimal sizing and operation planning of microgrids and operation analysis of charging stations for electric vehicles
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2018-12-20)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessEnergy and transportation sectors are going through major changes as a result of technological advances, depletion of fossil fuels and climate change. With regard to the energy sector, the future smart grid is expected to ... -
Radio resource management techniques for QoS provision in 5G networks
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2018-11-26)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessAs numerous mobile applications and over-the-top (OTT) services emerge and mobile Internet connectivity becomes ubiquitous, the provision of high quality of service (QoS) is more challenging for mobile network operators ... -
Radio frequency interference detection and mitigation techniques for navigation and Earth observation
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2018-11-09)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessRadio-Frequency Interference (RFI) signals are undesired signals that degrade or disrupt the performance of a wireless receiver. RFI signals can be troublesome for any receiver, but they are especially threatening for ... -
Applications of L-band missions for environmental research
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2018-10-15)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessHuman activity leads to environmental changes which threaten the vegetation. Global warm ing trends, deforestation and land cover, or modified Earth's surface albedo, are sorne examples of these environmental changes. ... -
Semantic and generic object segmentation for scene analysis using RGB-D Data
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2018-07-20)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessIn this thesis, we study RGB-D based segmentation problems from different perspectives in terms of the input data. Apart from the basic photometric and geometric information contained in the RGB-D data, also semantic and ... -
Cellular networks for smart grid communication
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2018-07-19)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessThe next-generation electric power system, known as smart grid, relies on a robust and reliable underlying communication infrastructure to improve the efficiency of electricity distribution. Cellular networks, e.g., LTE/LTE-A ... -
Deep learning for i-vector speaker and language recognition
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2018-05-29)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessOver the last few years, i-vectors have been the state-of-the-art technique in speaker and language recognition. Recent advances in Deep Learning (DL) technology have improved the quality of i-vectors but the DL techniques ... -
Investigation of continuous-wave range-resolved lidar systems for gas detection and concentration measurement
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2011-07-27)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessThe techniques for detection of the atmosphere constituents and their distribution in the space have evolved in the last years driven by needs in the environmental, meteorological and climate science fields and backed by ... -
Design and stochastic analysis of emerging large-scale wireless-powered sensor networks
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2017-11-13)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessUndeniably, 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 of our everyday life, ... -
Contribution to ground-based and UAV SAR systems for Earth observation
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2017-11-17)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessMankind's way of life is the main driver of a planetary-scale change that is marked by the growing of human population's demand of energy, food, goods, services and information. As a result, it have emerged new ecological, ... -
Contribution to advanced sensor development for passive imaging of the Earth
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2017-11-20)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessThis work has been formally undertaken within the frame of the scholarship number BES-2012-053917 of 1 December 2012, by the "Secretario de Estado de Investigación del Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad" related to ...
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