Signal Processing for Communications

Acronym:    SGR 2009
Code:    2009 SGR 1236
Funder:    Catalan Government
Start date:    2009 January 1st
End date:    2013 December 31st
    
SPCOM Participants:    Adrian Agustin de Dios, Italo Atzeni, Margarita Cabrera Bean, Juan Fernández Rubio, Josep Font Segura, Luis García Ordóñez, Sandra Lagén Morancho, Meritxell Lamarca Orozco, David Matas, Olga Muñoz Medina, Alba Pagès Zamora, Adriano Pastore, Francisco Ramirez Javega, Francesc Rey Micolau, Jaume Riba Sagarra, Javier Rodríguez Fonollosa, Josep Sala Alvarez, Silvana Silva Pereira, Marc Torrellas Socastro, Gregori Vázquez Grau, Josep Vidal Manzano and Javier Villares Piera
SPCOM Responsible:    Josep Sala Alvarez

Summary

Research Grant for Consolidated Research Groups

More project information: http://futur.upc.edu/1171755

Journal publications

[1] J. Font-Segura, G. Vázquez and J. Riba Sagarra, "Single and Multi-Frequency Wideband Spectrum Sensing with Side-Information", IET Signal Processing, Vol. 8, No. 8, October 2014, pp. 831 - 843.

[2] Saeid Sedighi, Abbas Taherpour and J. Sala Alvarez, "Spectrum Sensing Using Correlated Receiving Multiple Antennas in Cognitive Radios", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 12, No. 11, November 2013, pp. 5754 - 5766.

[3] J. Sala Alvarez, G. Vazquez-Vilar and R. López-Valcarce, "Multiantenna GLR detection of rank-one signals with known power spectrum in white noise with unknown spatial correlation", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 60, No. 6, June 2012, pp. 3065 - 3078.

[4] J. Sala Alvarez, F. Rey Micolau and Javier Villares, "Asymptotically optimum energy profile for Successive Interference Cancellation in DS-CDMA under a power unbalance constraint", IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 16, No. 2, February 2012, pp. 172 - 175.

[5] A. Gutierrez Diaz de Leon, Margarita Cabrera-Bean and M. Patzold, "On the problems of symbol-spaced tapped-delay-line models for WSSUS channels", Wiley Ed., Wireless communications and mobile computing Wiley Ed, Vol. 9, No. 9, August 2008, pp. 1181 - 1193.

[6] Margarita Cabrera-Bean, "This is Margas test", IEEE Buran, The First, Vol. 1, No. 1, December 1975, pp. 1 - 1.

Conference publications

[1] J. Del Olmo, A. Pascual Iserte, J. Vidal, O. Muñoz Medina and A. Agustin de Dios, "Three-G Access Network Dimensioning in Isolated Rural Areas Based on Femtocells", European Conference on Networks and Communications, June 2014, pp. 1 - 5.

[2] J. Castro Arvizu, P. Closas Gómez and J. Fernández Rubio, "Cramér Rao lower bound for breakpoint distance estimation in a path loss model", IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC Communications Workshops, June 2014, pp. 176 - 180.

[3] S. Lagén, A. Agustin de Dios and J. Vidal, "Decentralized Beamforming with Coordinated Sounding for Inter-Cell Interference Management", European Wireless, May 2014.

[4] S. Lagén, A. Agustin de Dios and J. Vidal, "Improper Gaussian signaling for the Z-Interference Channel", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, May 2014.

[5] J. Font-Segura, J. Riba Sagarra, Javier Villares and G. Vázquez, "Frequency-Domain GLR Detection of Cyclostationary Signals in Frequency-Selective Channels", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, May 2014, pp. 5769 - 5773.

[6] S. Lagén, A. Agustin de Dios and J. Vidal, "Distributed Inter-Cluster Interference Management for CoMP-based Cellular Networks", IEEE Global Communications Conference, December 2013.

[7] F. Rey Micolau and J. Sala Alvarez, "Stochastic Dynamic Systems in PHY Abstraction", IEEE Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, November 2013, pp. 1 - 5.

[8] F. Ramirez Javega, M. Lamarca and J. Garcia-Frias, "Progressive encoding with non-linear source codes for compression of low-entropy sources", International Symposium on Turbo Codes & Iterative Information Processing, September 2010.

[9] A. Wiesel, X. Mestre, A. Pagès Zamora and J. R. Fonollosa, "Efficient Implementation of Sphere Demodulation", IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances for Wireless Communications, June 2003.