Tseliou, Georgia (Date of defense: 2019-07-17)
The complexity of operation and management of emerging cellular networks significantly increases, as they evolve to correspond to increasing QoS needs, data rates and diversity of offered services. Thus ...
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 ...
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 ...
Giménez Febrer, Pere Joan (Date of defense: 2021-02-11)
In matrix completion, the objective is to recover an unknown matrix from a small subset of observed entries. Most successful methods for recovering the unknown entries are based on the assumption that ...
Schulz, Henrik (Date of defense: 2017-03-02)
The transcription of spontaneous speech still poses a challenge to state-of-the-art methods for automatic speech recognition. The present thesis describes the comprehensive development of a large ...
Casamitjana Díaz, Adrià (Date of defense: 2019-12-20)
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that constitutes the most common dementia pathology. It represents a global epidemic that expands exponentially as the life expectancy increases ...
Yang, Heng, 1985- (Date of defense: 2019-06-11)
The research of this thesis addresses the detection and characterization of ionospheric waves and its application to traveling ionospheric disturbances (TIDs) induced by the natural events, such as ...
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 ...
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 ...
Bellot Pujalte, Pau (Date of defense: 2017-05-08)
A cell is a the basic structural and functional unit of every living thing, it is protein-based an that regulates itself. The cell eats to stay alive, it grows and develops; reacting to the environment, ...