This thesis aims to help in the definition and design of the 5th generation of telecommunications networks (5G) by modelling...

While oceans occupy most of our planet, their exploration and conservation are one of the crucial research problems of modern times. Underwater localization...

A broad spectrum of services running on top of an exponentially growing number of interconnected de­vices makes network operations more...

Several businesses are nowadays becoming more and more aware of the potential that lies beneath Big Data. From social media...

Future millimeter-wave networks will support very high densities of devices and access points. This vastly increases the overhead required for...

Online advertising has evolved into a key component of the Internet we know today. It is a very complex ecosystem...

Fast advance in the design of 5G cellular networks has motivated a lot of research that addresses challenges given by...

In the last years indoor localization and applications that use positioning information have attracted a lot of attention from the...

Visible Light Communication(VLC) has emerged in the last years as a new way to communicate. Using the existing lighting infrastructure,...

By leveraging on novel concepts of virtualization and programmability, future 5G Net- works are expected to be reliable, high-performing and...