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    Subset selection in signal processing using sparsity-inducing norms 

    Blanco Botana, Luis (Date of defense: 2017-07-22)

    This dissertation deals with different subset selection problems in wireless communications systems. These type of problems have a combinatorial nature, which makes them computationally intractable for medium and large-scale ...

    Surface reconstruction for multi-view video 

    Salvador Marcos, Jordi (Date of defense: 2011-09-23)

    This thesis introduces a methodology for obtaining an alternative representation of video sequences captured by calibrated multi-camera systems in controlled environments with known scene background. This representation ...

    Synergistic optical and microwave remote sensing approaches for soil moisture mapping at high resolution 

    Portal González, Gerard (Date of defense: 2022-05-27)

    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 ...

    Synthesis and design of dissipative filters with improved performance 

    Padilla Díaz, Alberto (Date of defense: 2015-11-11)

    Connect, upload, download, share and transfer anything at anytime and anywhere is not a futuristic vision and is indeed a real demand on current and future wireless and fixed communication systems. From the point of view ...

    Synthesis of acoustic wave filters : ladder and transversal topologies : towards a practical implementation 

    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 phone users worldwide ...

    Technologies for injection molded antennas for mass production 

    Zhou, Ivan (Date of defense: 2023-01-19)

    (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. ...

    Terahertz integrated antenna arrays for imaging applications 

    Alonso del Pino, María (Date of defense: 2013-10-25)

    Terahertz is the portion of the spectrum that covers a frequency range between 300 GHz - 3 THz. This frequency band has proven its potential for imaging applications thanks to the good compromise between spatial resolution ...

    Texture analysis and physical interpretation of polarimetric SAR data 

    Deng, Xinping (Date of defense: 2016-07-26)

    This thesis is dedicated to the study of texture analysis and physical interpretation of PolSAR data. As the starting point, a complete survey of the statistical models for PolSAR data is conducted. All the models are ...

    Técnicas de acceso y gestión de recursos para garantizar calidad de servicio en sistemas de comunicaciones moviles basados en CDMA 

    Alonso Zárate, Luis Gonzaga (Date of defense: 2001-05-02)

    En la presente tesis doctoral se ha realizado una serie de aportaciones para contribuir al desarrollo de los sistemas de comunicaciones móviles de tercera generación. Esta nueva generación de sistemas utilizará una técnica ...

    Técnicas de procesado y representación de la señal de voz para el reconocimiento del habla en ambientes ruidosos 

    Hernando Pericás, Francisco Javier (Date of defense: 1993-05-07)

    El comportamiento de los sistemas actuales de reconocimiento del habla se degrada rápidamente en presencia de ruido de fondo cuando las etapas de entrenamiento y de test no pueden llevarse a cabo en las mismas condiciones ...

    Técnicas de Speech Enhancement considerando estadísticas de orden superior 

    Salavedra Molí, Josep Maria (Date of defense: 1995-09-15)

    Las prestaciones de muchos sistemas de procesado de vozse degradan rápidamente en aplicaciones reales ante lapresencia de ruido. Para solucionar este problema lastécnicas de speech enhancement pretenden reducir esteruido ...

    Técnicas para minimizar la degradación provocada por la polarización en las comunicaciones por fibra óptica 

    Comellas Colomé, Jaume (Date of defense: 1999-07-16)

    En els últims anys la importància de la polarització en les comunicacions òptiques ha crescut notablement com resultat de tres grans desenvolupaments:<br/>1. L'aparició de l'amplificació òptica ha fet que es produeixi un ...

    Three dimensional temporal-spatial model based SAR algorithms for monitoring large gradient deformations in mining area 

    Du, Sen (Date of defense: 2022-05-13)

    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 ...

    Towards a cloud enabler : from an optical network resource provisioning system to a generalized architecture for dynamic infrastructure services provisioning 

    Figuerola Fernández, Sergi (Date of defense: 2016-01-25)

    This work was developed during a period where most of the optical management and provisioning system where manual and proprietary. This work contributed to the evolution of the state of the art of optical networks with new ...

    Towards zero-power wireless machine-to-machine networks 

    Vázquez Gallego, Francisco (Date of defense: 2016-07-19)

    This thesis aims at contributing to overcome two of the main challenges for the deployment of M2M networks in data collection scenarios for the Internet of Things: the management of massive numbers of end-devices that ...

    Traffic offloading in future, heterogeneous mobile networks 

    Trakas, Panagiotis (Date of defense: 2019-05-31)

    The rise of third-party content providers and the introduction of numerous applications has been driving the growth of mobile data traffic in the past few years. In order to tackle this challenge, Mobile Network Operators ...

    Transformada de fourier en processament no lineal del senyal 

    Pagès Zamora, Alba Maria (Date of defense: 1996-12-13)

    La tesis presenta un modelo no recursivo de sistemas no lineales (SNLS) basado en las series de fourier, estableciendo una comparación con el modelo de volterra en términos de coste computacional y diseño. <br/><br/>Del ...

    Transmission impairments mitigation in next generation coherent optical access networks 

    Tabares Giraldo, Jeison (Date of defense: 2021-09-08)

    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 ...

    Transmission strategies for interfering networks with finite rate and outdated channel feedback 

    Torrellas Socastro, Marc (Date of defense: 2016-02-10)

    The emergence of very capable mobile terminals, e.g. smartphones or tablets, has dramatically increased the demand of wireless data traffic in recent years. Current growth forecasts elucidate that wireless communication ...

    Transmission strategies for wireless energy harvesting nodes 

    Gregori Casas, Maria (Date of defense: 2014-07-24)

    Over the last few decades, transistor miniaturization has enabled a tremendous increase in the processing capability of commercial electronic devices, which, combined with the reduction of production costs, has tremendously ...