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    Graph convolutional neural networks for 3D data analysis 

    Mosella Montoro, Albert (Date of defense: 2023-02-22)

    (English) Deep Learning allows the extraction of complex features directly from raw input data, eliminating the need for hand-crafted features from the classical Machine Learning pipeline. This new paradigm brought a boost ...

    Nonlinear modeling and characterization of SAW devices for communications systems 

    González Rodríguez, Marta (Date of defense: 2023-02-10)

    (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 

    Borràs Pino, Jordi (Date of defense: 2023-01-25)

    (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, ...

    Quality of service, security and trustworthiness for network slices 

    Alemany Prats, Pol (Date of defense: 23-03-23)

    (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 ...

    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. ...

    Evaluation of the surface impedance of ReBCO coated conductors and requirements for their use as beam screen materials for the FCC-hh 

    Krkotic, Patrick (Date of defense: 2022-11-25)

    (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 

    Basta, Christine Raouf Saad (Date of defense: 2022-10-14)

    (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 

    Herbert, Christoph Josef (Date of defense: 2022-07-15)

    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 

    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 ...

    Deriving vertical total electron content maps from SMOS full polarimetric data to compensate the Faraday rotation effect 

    Rubino, Roselena (Date of defense: 2022-09-16)

    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 

    Liesegang Maria, Sergi (Date of defense: 2022-11-07)

    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 

    Ballesteros Sánchez, Christian (Date of defense: 2022-07-21)

    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 

    Cardoso Duarte, Amanda (Date of defense: 2022-06-27)

    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 

    Locatelli, Fabiano (Date of defense: 2021-11-18)

    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 

    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 ...

    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 ...

    Learning multilingual and multimodal representations with language-specific encoders and decoders for machine translation 

    Escolano Peinado, Carlos (Date of defense: 2022-03-18)

    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 

    Molina Oliveras, Francesc (Date of defense: 2021-10-06)

    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 

    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 ...

    Machine learning assisted QoT estimation for optical networks optimization 

    Mahajan, Ankush (Date of defense: 2021-09-28)

    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 ...