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    Contribution to radio resource and spectrum management strategies in wireless access networks: a markov modeling approach 

    Gelabert Doran, Xavier (Date of defense: 2010-07-12)

    Las redes inal´ambricas actuales exhiben caracter´ısticas heterog´eneas de acceso m´ultiple mediante el despliegue, la coexistencia y la cooperaci´on de varias Tecnolog ´ıas de Acceso Radio (RAT2). En este escenario, la ...

    Contribution to resource management in cellular access networks with limited backhaul capacity 

    Galeana Zapién, Hiram (Date of defense: 2011-02-25)

    La interfaz radio de los sistemas de comunicaciones móviles es normalmente considerada como la única limitación de capacidad en la red de acceso radio. Sin embargo, a medida que se van desplegando nuevas y más eficientes ...

    Contribution to spatial bias mitigation in interferometric radiometers devoted to Earth observation : application to the SMOS mission 

    Wu, Lin (Date of defense: 2014-05-30)

    This work has been undertaken within the frame of the FPI scholarship BES-2009-028505 of 30/07/2009, by the "Secretario de Estado de Investigación del Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación", related to the project ...

    Contribution to spectrum management in cognitive radio networks: a cognitive management framework 

    Bouali, Faouzi (Date of defense: 2013-09-06)

    To overcome the current under-utilization of spectrum resources, the CR (Cognitive Radio) paradigm has gained an increasing interest to perform the so-called Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA). In this respect, Cognitive Radio ...

    Contribution to the characterization of interferometric radiometers devoted to Earth observation: application to the MIRAS/SMOS payload 

    González Gambau, Verónica (Date of defense: 2012-09-05)

    The variability of soil moisture and ocean salinity controls the continuous exchange of water between the oceans, the atmosphere and the land. Therefore, the accurate and periodic measurements of these geophysical variables ...

    Contribution to the development of pico-satellites for Earth observation and technology demonstrators 

    Jové Casulleras, Roger (Date of defense: 2015-02-17)

    The submitted Ph.D. thesis is a contribution to the development of pico-satellites and nano-satellites for Earth Observation and Technology Demonstrators. Development of satellites with a mass from 1 kg up to 10 kg has ...

    Contribution to the improvement of integral equation methods for penetrable scatterers 

    Úbeda Farré, Eduard (Date of defense: 2001-02-01)

    The study of the electromagnetic phenomena along the last two centuries has brought about outstanding contributions for the human progress. The electromagnetism represents still now, at the beginning of the third millenium, ...

    Contribution to the modelling and evaluation of radio network slicing solutions in 5G 

    Vilà Muñoz, Irene (Date of defense: 2022-04-06)

    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 ...

    Contribution to the optimization of 4G mobile communications by means of advanced carrier aggregation strategies 

    Lema Rosas, María Ángel (Date of defense: 2015-05-22)

    Mobile broadband subscriptions and data traffic have increasingly grown in the past years with the deployment of the 3G and 4G technologies and the massive use of mobile devices. In this sense, LTE-A has been presented as ...

    Contribution to wireless access optimization and dynamic enhancement of WCDMA networks 

    García Lozano, Mario (Date of defense: 2009-01-12)

    El despliegue de las redes celulares 3G/3.5G plantea un reto a las estrategias de planificación y optimización radio tradicionales. A diferencia de los sistemas 2G FDMA, cobertura y capacidad están estrechamente ligadas y ...

    Contributions to channel modelling and performance estimation of HAPS-based communication systems regarding IEEE Std 802.16TM 

    Palma Lázgare, Israel Romualdo (Date of defense: 2011-10-24)

    New and future telecommunication networks are and will be broadband type. The existing terrestrial and space radio communication infrastructures might be supplemented by new wireless networks that make and will make use ...

    Contributions to earth observation using gnss-r opportunity signals 

    Rodriguez Alvarez, Nereida (Date of defense: 2011-12-22)

    During years a number of satellites have been developed to remotely sense Earth geophysical parameters for weather forecasting and other climate studies. In recent years the use of reflected Global Navigation Satellite ...

    Contributions to land, sea, and sea ice remote sensing using GNSS-reflectometry 

    Alonso Arroyo, Alberto (Date of defense: 2016-11-10)

    This PhD thesis researches the use of passive remote sensing techniques using signals transmitted from the navigation satellites (GNSS) in order to retrieve different geophysical parameters. The thesis consists of two ...

    Contributions to radio frequency interference detection and mitigation in Earth observation 

    Forte Véliz, Giuseppe Francesco (Date of defense: 2014-06-26)

    Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) is the most common problem for electronic measuring systems. The presence of those electromagnetic waves can harm the measurements taken from very sensitive instruments, like microwave ...

    Contributions to the determination of electromagnetic bias in Gnss-R altimetry 

    Ghavidel, Ali (Date of defense: 2015-07-14)

    In this Ph. D. dissertation the electromagnetic bias in GNSS-R (Global Navigation Satellite Systems Reflectometry) altimetry has been studied. GNSS-R altimetry is a new type of system that uses navigation signals as signals ...

    Contributrion to the improvement of the soil moisture and ocean salinity (SMOS) sea surface salinity retrieval algorithm 

    Talone, Marco (Date of defense: 2010-11-22)

    The European Space Agency's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite was launched on November, 2, 2009 from the Russian cosmodrome of Plesetsk. Its objective is to globally and regularly collect measurements ...

    Converged RAN/MEC slicing in beyond 5G (B5G) networks 

    Ojaghi Kahjogh, Behnam (Date of defense: 2023-07-13)

    (English) The main objective of this thesis is to propose solutions for implementing dynamic RAN slicing and Functional Split (FS) along with MEC placements in 5G/B5G. In particular, this thesis is divided into three parts. ...

    Coordination strategies for interference management in MIMO dense cellular networks 

    Lagén Morancho, Sandra (Date of defense: 2016-12-21)

    The envisioned rapid and exponential increase of wireless data traffic demand in the next years imposes rethinking current cellular networks due to the available spectrum scarcity. In this regard, 3 main drivers are ...

    Criterios de teoría de la información en procesado adaptativo de la señal y aplicaciones 

    Sala i Álvarez, Josep (Date of defense: 1995-06-15)

    En esta tesis hemos querido básicamente considerar el diseño de funciones de coste para adaptación ciega en un amplio margen de aplicaciones en el ámbito de las comunicaciones digitales, tomando en consideración los ...

    Cross-layer design and optimization of medium access control protocols for wlans 

    Kartsakli, Elli (Date of defense: 2012-02-16)

    This thesis provides a contribution to the field of Medium Access Control (MAC) layer protocol design for wireless networks by proposing and evaluating mechanisms that enhance different aspects of the network performance. ...