Departament d'Enginyeria Telemàtica

La recerca desenvolupada en el Departament d’Enginyeria Telemàtica està principalment enfocada als Serveis Telemàtics, al Disseny i Avaluació de Xarxes i Serveis de Banda Ampla; a les Comunicacions sense fils i a la Gestió, Polítiques de Preus i Serveis en Xarxes de Nova Generació.


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Recent Submissions

AI/ML for multi-technology RAN automation with full and limited infrastructure support 

Ali, Zoraze (Date of defense: 2023-11-15)

(English) This thesis studies and proposes solutions to some of the most relevant challenges in the Radio Access Network (RAN) management arising from its evolution beyond 5G and towards 6G. The tackled problems are selected ...

Private user-centric management of electronic services in smart communities 

Robles González, Antonio (Date of defense: 2023-10-05)

(English) Smart community services are reaching nearly every area of our daily life, often requiring private information from their users. The scope of all contributors to these services is to collaboratively share information ...

Performance improvements for multi-radio dual connectivity in mobile networks 

Pupiales Yépez, Carlos (Date of defense: 2022-11-24)

(English) Initial 5G networks were deployed to satisfy the users with higher data rates. Hence, to reduce the time to market and maximize the value of already deployed infrastructure, such deployments used the Non-Standalone ...

Contributions to IPv6 support over low rate low power wireless networks 

Aguilar Romero, Sergio (Date of defense: 2023-07-06)

(English) The main objective of this thesis is contributing to IPv6 support over Low Rate Low Power Wireless Networks (LRLPWNs). One family of LRLPWNs is Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWANs), which includes technologies ...

Control strategy and predictive methods for performance and component lifetime enhancement in vehicle powertrain 

Martín Prieto, Álvaro (Date of defense: 2023-04-26)

(Enlish) In the past years, battery electric vehicles have been gaining market share. These vehicles are progressively seen as a viable option by customers of all kind. However, although manufacturers and research institutions ...

Contributions to the evaluation and improvement of LoRaWAN 

Casals Ibáñez, Lluís (Date of defense: 2023-05-30)

(English) Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) technologies have gained significant momentum as wireless solutions for implementing Internet of Things (IoT) applications and services. The unique set of LPWAN features, such ...

Viewability contributions towards a better online advertising ecosystem 

Expósito Ventura, Marta (Date of defense: 2023-04-20)

(English) Online advertising makes possible most of the freely available online content and services. However, it is far from being mature and there are still controversial topics that need to be addressed. One of these ...

Strategies for improving resilience in distributed communication systems 

Llorens Carrodeguas, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2023-01-26)

(English) With the development of industry and society, new verticals have emerged such as Industry 4.0, cooperative sensing, and massive IoT. These verticals require network robustness and availability to maintain high ...

Strategies for UPF placement in 5G and beyond networks 

Leyva Pupo, Irian (Date of defense: 2023-01-26)

(English) This doctoral thesis focuses on the design of strategies (i.e., exact and heuristic-based methods) to optimize the placement and reconfiguration of user plane functions (UPFs) in 5G and beyond networks. These ...

Invoice factoring through blockchain technology 

Mohammadzadeh, Nasibeh (Date of defense: 2022-10-06)

(English) Invoice factoring has been a popular way to provide cash flow for businesses. The primary function of a factoring system is to prevent an invoice from being factored twice. In order to prevent double factoring, ...

Contribution to the system architecture design for electromagnetic nano-network communications 

Galal Mahmoud Ibrahim, Akram (Date of defense: 2022-10-10)

(English) A nano-network is a communication network at the nano-scale between nano-devices. Nanodevices face certain challenges in functionalities, because of limitations in their processing capabilities and power management ...

Control logic distribution trade-offs in software-defined wireless networks 

Osman, Mohamad (Date of defense: 2022-10-07)

The SDN (Software-Defined Networks) architecture separates the data and the control planes of the networks. It logically centralizes the control of a network in a central point that is an SDN controller, which acts as a ...

Contribution to reliable end-to-end communication over 5G networks using advanced techniques 

Poorzare, Reza (Date of defense: 2022-09-05)

5G cellular communication, especially with its hugely available bandwidth provided by millimeter-wave, is a promising technology to fulfill the coming high demand for vast data rates. These networks can support new use ...

Contribution to multi-domain network slicing : resource orchestration framework and algorithms 

Kibalya, Godfrey Mirondo (Date of defense: 2022-07-26)

5G/6G services and applications, in the context of the eMBB, mMTC and uRLLC network slicing framework, whose network infrastructure requirements may span beyond the coverage area of a single Infrastructure Provider (InP), ...

Efficient sharing mechanisms for virtualized multi-tenant heterogeneous networks 

Vincenzi, Matteo (Date of defense: 2022-07-18)

The explosion in data traffic, the physical resource constraints, and the insufficient financial incentives for deploying 5G networks, stress the need for a paradigm shift in network upgrades. Typically, operators are also ...

Contributions to energy-aware demand-response systems using SDN and NFV for fog computing 

Tipantuña Tenelema, Christian José (Date of defense: 2022-03-29)

Ever-increasing energy consumption, the depletion of non-renewable resources, the climate impact associated with energy generation, and finite energy-production capacity are important concerns worldwide that drive the ...

Joint access-backhaul mechanisms in 5G cell-less architectures 

Rony, Rakibul Islam (Date of defense: 2022-05-13)

Older generations of wireless networks, such as 1G and 2G were deployed using leased line, copper or fibre line as backhaul. Later, in 3G and 4G, microwave wireless links have also worked as backhaul links while the ...

Cellular and Wi-Fi technologies evolution: from complementarity to competition 

Bojovic, Biljana (Date of defense: 2022-01-12)

This PhD thesis has the characteristic to span over a long time because while working on it, I was working as a research engineer at CTTC with highly demanding development duties. This has delayed the deposit more than I ...

Enhanced quality of service mechanisms for 5G networks 

Irazabal Bengoa, Mikel (Date of defense: 2021-09-10)

The heterogeneous services with stringent requirements that are envisioned to co-exist under the fifth generation of cellular networks (5G), inexorably challenge the current Long-Term Evolution (LTE) cellular network’s ...

Resource allocation and management under priorities based on the squatting-kicking model for multi-slice 5G networks 

Hamouda, Ahmed Mohamed Abdelaty Elmekkawi (Date of defense: 2021-09-30)

The upcoming Beyond Fifth Generation networks aim to meet network services characterized by low latency and high reliability among others in different slices to provide a high-quality user experience. However, existing ...

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