Introduction
The activity of the ASIP Department is mainly focused on fundamental and applied research in signal processing and information theory, giving special emphasis to wireless communications. Our main objective is to contribute to spectrum sharing techniques for bandwidth-hungry service deployments in future 5G mobile communication systems. We specifically cover the design of novel transmission techniques in order to increase the spectrum efficiency while reducing the amount of energy that is employed for the transmission of each bit.
In order to tackle these challenges, the ASIP Department proposes to set up three research lines of rather theoretical nature, namely:
- Post-OFDM filterbank multicarrier (FBMC) modulations for 5G wireless communications.
- Novel paradigms in multi-antenna signal processing.
- Energy Harvesting Communication and Sensor Networks.
A transversal research line on prototyping of PHY communication systems is also established, which specifically focuses on implementation solutions for wireless communications and power line technologies.
Scientific Publications & PatentsJournals
J. Matamoros, C. Antón-Haro, Estimation of Spatially-correlated Random Fields with Compressed Observations, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 13, No. 12, pp. 6542-6556, December 2014.
M. Gregori, M. Payaro, On the Optimal Resource Allocation for a Wireless Energy Harvesting Node Considering the Circuitry Power Consumption, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 13, No. 11, pp. 5968-5984, November 2014.
L. Berbakov, C. Antón-Haro, J. Matamoros, Joint Optimization of Transmission Policies for Collaborative Beamforming with Energy Harvesting Sensors, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 13, No. 7, pp. 3496-3509, July 2014.
F. Chapon, R. Couillet, W. Hachem, X. Mestre, The outliers among the singular values of large rectangular random matrices with additive fixed rank deformation, Markov Processes and Related Fields, Vol. 20, pp. 183-228, January 2014.
Conferencies
J. Matamoros, S. Fosson, E. Magli, C. Antón-Haro, Distributed ADMM for in-network reconstruction of sparse signals with innovations, in Proceedings of IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), 3-5 December 2014, Atlanta (US).
J. Gómez-Vilardebó, Competitive design of power allocation strategies for energy harvesting wireless communication systems, in Proceedings of IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), 3-5 December 2014, Atlanta (US).
M. Renfors, D. Le Ruyet, D. Tsolkas, O. Font-Bach, N. Bartzoudis, P. Mege, L. Baltar, V. Ringset, X. Mestre, EMPhAtiC Intermediate Results and Standardization Strategy, in Proceedings of the 23rd European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC 2014), 23-26 June 2014, Bologna (Italy).
D. Gregoratti, X. Mestre, AF Relaying for FBMC Signals, in Proceedings of European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC), 23-26 June 2014, Bologna (Italy).
P. Vallet, X. Mestre, P. Loubaton, R. Couillet, Asymptotic analysis of Beamspace-MUSIC in the context of large arrays , in Proceedings of the 8th IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM), 22-25 June 2014, La Coruña (Spain).
O. Tan, D. Gunduz, J. Gómez-Vilardebó, Delay Constrained Linear Transmission of Random State Measurements, in Proceedings of 8th IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM 2014), 22-25 June 2014, A Coruña (Spain).
M. Gregori, M. Payaro, Multiuser communications with energy harvesting transmitters, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC), 10-14 June 2014, Sydney (Australia).
J. Matamoros, C. Antón-Haro, D. Gregoratti, L. Berbakov, Distributed Beampattern Control with one bit of Feedback, in Proceedings of European Wireless 2014 (EW’14), 14-16 May 2014, Barcelona (Spain).
J. Gómez-Vilardebó, Heuristic Routing Algorithms for Minimum Energy Cooperative Multi-hop Wireless Networks, in Proceedings of European Wireless 2014 (EW’14), 14-16 May 2014, Barcelona (Spain).
J. Gómez-Vilardebó, D. Gunduz, Competitive Analysis of Energy Harvesting Wireless Communication Systems, in Proceedings of the 20th European Wireless (EW’14),14-16 May 2014, Barcelona (Spain).
Patents
X. Mestre, S. Pfletschinger, M. Majoral, Method for equalizing filterbank multicarrier (FBMC) modulations , Granted patent: USA 8.929.495
J. Nin, P. Dini, C. Antón-Haro, J. Mangues, FEMTO-TOLL. A femtocell-based toll collection system , International Application Nº: PCT/EP2011/063595.
M. Á. Lagunas, A. I. Pérez-Neira, X. Mestre, M. Á. Rojas, Signal Processing Device and Method for Detecting and Locating Spectral Shapes , Granted patent: US 8.290.459, EP2297588.
X. Mestre, Method and System for Estimating Directions of Arrival in low Power or low Sample Size Scenarios , Granted patent: USA 7.982.670, EP2005207, Japan 4990919.