Joan Lluís Pijoan i Vidal

 joanp@salle.url.edu

 

 

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Here you can find some of my most recent publications. For a detailed information, please visit the web page of the Research Group in Electromagnetism and Communications (GRECO).

 

 

 

2011

 

 

· Marc Deumal, Ali Behravan, and Joan Lluís Pijoan, “On Cubic Metric Reduction in OFDM Systems by Tone Reservation”, IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 59, No. 6, pp. 1612-1620,  June 2011.

 

 

 

2009

 

· P.Bergada, M.Deumal, R.M.Alsina, J.L.Pijoan, “Time Interleaving Study for an OFDM Long-Haul HF Radio Link”, Proc. of Ionospheric Radio Systems and Techniques (IRST’09), 2009.

· P.Bergadà, M. Deumal, R.M. Alsina, J.L. Pijoan, “Time Interleaving Study for an OFDM Long-Haul HF Radio Link”, Ionospheric Radio Systems and Techniques, April 2009.

· R. Aquilué, M. Ribó, J.R. Regué, J.L. Pijoan, G. Sánchez, “Scattering Parameters Based Underground Medium Voltage Power Line Communications Channel Measurements, Characterization and Modeling”, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, July 2009.

· R. Aquilué, I. Gutiérrez, J.L. Pijoan, G. Sánchez, “High Voltage Multicarrier Spread Spectrum Field Test”, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, July 2009.

· I. Gutiérrez, J.L. Pijoan, F. Bader, Mixed TUSC and band AMC permutation zone in OFDMA systems with limited feedback, in Proc. of IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Spring (VTC’09), Barcelona, Spain, April 2009.

· J.M. Torta, S. Marsal, J.C. Riddick, C. Vilella, D. Altadill, E. Blanch, O. Cid, J.J. Curto, A. De Santis, L.R. Gaya-Piqué, J. Mauricio, J.L. Pijoan, J.G. Solé, A. Ugalde, An example of operation for a partly manned Antarctic geomagnetic observatory and the development of a radio link for data transmission, Annals of Geophysics, February 2009.

· I. Gutiérrez, F. Bader, R. Aquilué, and J.L. Pijoan, Contiguous Frequency-Time Resource Allocation and Scheduling for Wireless OFDMA Systems with QoS Support, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, February 2009.

· C. Vilella, D. Miralles, D. Altadill, F. Acosta, J.G. Solé, J.M. Torta, J.L. Pijoan, Vertical and oblique ionospheric soundings over a very long multihop HF radio link from polar to midlatitudes: Results and relationships, Radio Science, January 2009.

· I. Gutiérrez, F. Bader, J.L. Pijoan, New prioritization function for user scheduling in OFDMA Systems, in Proc. of IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS’09) , San Diego, USA, January 2009.

 

2008

 

· M. Deumal, A. Behravan, T. Eriksson, J.L. Pijoan, Evaluation of performance improvement capabilities of PAPR-reducing methods, Springer Journal on Wireless Personal Communications, October 2008.

· J. Krajnak, M. Deumal, P. Pavelka, D. Kocur, J.L. Pijoan, P. Galajda, Multiuser detection of nonlinearly distorted MC-CDMA symbols by microstatistic filtering, Springer Journal on Wireless Personal Communications, October 2008.

· I. Gutiérrez, F. Bader, J.L. Pijoan, Subchannel Power Allocation and Rate Adaptation for a MC-CDMA System Satisfying Mixed QoS Requirements, in Proc. of Mosharaka International Conference on Communications, Signals and Coding (MIC-CSC’08), accepted, Mosharaka , Jordan, October 2008.

· R.M. Alsina, C. Mateo, J.C. Socoró and M. Deumal, Neural Network Acquistition Estimator for Multiresolutive Adaptive PN Acquisition Scheme in Multiuser Non Selective Fast SNR Variation Environments, in Proc. of International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS’08), Barcelona, Spain, September 2008.

· J. Mauricio, P.Bergada, J.L. Pijoan, S. Marsal, J.M. Torta, Codificación de fuente y señalización OFDM ad-hoc para enlace HF de larga distancia, in Proc. of Simposium Nacional de la Unión Científica Internacional de Radio (URSI’08), in Spanish, Madrid, Spain, September 2008.

· C. Vilella, D. Miralles, J.L. Pijoan, An Antarctica-to-Spain HF Ionospheric Radio Link: Sounding Results, Radio Science, August 2008.

· P. Bergada, M. Deumal, C. Vilella and J.L. Pijoan, Multicarrier Modulation Proposal for Long Distance HF Data Links, in Proc. of Ionospheric Effects Symposium (IES’08), submitted, Alexandria, USA, May 2008.

· R. Aquilué, M. Ribó, J.R. Regué, J.L. Pijoan, G. Sánchez, Urban Underground Medium Voltage Channel Measurements and Characterization, in Proc. of IEEE Symposium on Power Line Communications and its Applications (ISPLC’08), Jeju-do, South-Korea, April 2008.

· R. Aquilué, J.L. Pijoan, G. Sánchez, High Voltage Channel Measurements and Field Test of a Low Power OFDM System, in Proc. of IEEE Symposium on Power Line Communications and its Applications (ISPLC’08), Jeju, South Korea, April 2008.

 

2007

 

· J.M. Torta, J.L Pijoan, D. Altadill, E. Blanch, O. Cid, J.J. Curto, A. De Santis, L.R. Gaya-Piqué, S. Marsal, J. Mauricio, J.C. Riddick, J.G. Solé, A. Ugalde, C. Vilella, An example of operation for A partly manned Antartic observatory and the development OF a radio link for data transmission, in Proc. of the General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, Perugia, Italy, July 2007.

· I. Gutiérrez, F. Bader, J.L. Pijoan, Radio Resource Allocation in MC-CDMA under QoS Requirements, in Proc. of International Workshop on Multi-Carrier Spread Spectrum (MCSS’07), Munich, Germany, May 2007.

· M. Deumal, A. Behravan, T. Eriksson and J.L. Pijoan, Constrained clipping for Peak Power reduction of multicarrier systems by Tone Reservation, in Proc. of IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Spring (VTC’07), Dublin, Ireland, April 2007.

· I. Gutiérrez, F. Bader, J.L. Pijoan, S. Ben Slimane, Adaptive Resource Management for a MC-CDMA System with Mixed QoS Classes Using a Cross Layer Strategy, in Proc. of IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Spring (VTC’07), Dublin, Ireland, April 2007.

· R. Aquilué, M. Deumal, J.L. Pijoan, L. Corbeira, A Low Complexity Multicarrier Proposal for Medium Rate Demanding Automatic Meter Reading Systems, in Proc. of IEEE Symposium on Power Line Communications and its Applications (ISPLC’07), Pisa, Italy, April 2007.

 

2006

 

 

· M.Deumal, J.L.Pijoan, I.Gutierrez, A.Behravan, Peak power reduction of multi-carrier systems by Controlled Spectral Outgrowth, COST-289 Workshop on Spectrum and Power Efficient Broadband Communications, March 2006, Novi Sad, Serbia.

· I.Gutierrez, J.L.Pijoan, M.Deumal, F.Bader, “Adaptive Bit Loading with Multi-User Diversity in MC-CDMA”, Proceedings of European Wireless 2006, April 2006, Athens.

· I.Gutierrez, J.L.Pijoan, R.Aquilué, F.Bader, “New Channel Interpolation Method for OFDM Systems by Nearest Pilot Padding”, Proceedings of European Wireless 2006, April 2006, Athens.

· M.Deumal, J.L. Pijoan, I.Gutiérrez, A.Behravan, "Peak reduction of multi-carrier systems by Controlled Spectral Outgrowth", Proc. IEEE International conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2006), May 2006, Toulouse.

· M.Deumal, C.Vilella, J.C.Socoró, R.M.Alsina, J.L.Pijoan, "A DS-SS signaling based system proposal for low SNR HF digital communications", Proc. Ionospheric Radio Systems and Techniques, July 2006, London.

· R.Aquilué, P.Bergadà, I.Gutiérrez, J.L.Pijoan, "Channel Estimation for Long Distance HF communications based on OFDM Pilot Symbols", Proc. Ionospheric Radio Systems and Techniques, July 2006, London.

· C.Vilella, J.C.Socoró, J.L.Pijoan, I.Gutiérrez, D.Altadill, "An Antarctic to Spain HF Link. Oblique Sounding Results", Proc. Ionospheric Radio Systems and Techniques, July 2006, London.

· C.Vilella, P.Bergadà, M.Deumal, J.L.Pijoan, R.Aquilué, "Transceiver Architecture and Digital Down Converter Design for a Long Distance, Low Power HF Ionospheric Link", Proc. Ionospheric Radio Systems and Techniques, July 2006, London.

· C.Vilella, D.Badia, J.L.Pijoan, M.Deumal, M.Ribo, J.R.Regué, "On site receiver testing. Application to long distance HF links", International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility EMC Europe 2006, September 2006, Barcelona.

· R. Aquilué, P. Bergadà, M. Deumal, J.L. Pijoan; Multicarrier Symbol Design for HF Transmissions from Antarctica Based on Real Channel Measurements; IEEE Military Comunications Conference; Proceedings of IEEE Military Comunications Conference, October 2006, Washington.

· J.L. Pijoan, M. Deumal, "On OFDM Systems with low Sensitivity to Nonlinear Amplification (TUTORIAL)", COST-289 Workshop on Spectrum and Power Efficient Broadband Communications, October 2006, Florence.

 

 

2005

 

 

· C.Vilella, J.C.Socoró, D.Miralles, J.L.Pijoan, P.Bergadà , “HF channel measurements for digital communications from Antarctica”, 11th International Ionospheric Effects Symposium IES 2005, Alexandria, Virginia, USA, 3-5 May 2005.

· M.Deumal, I.Gutierrez, J.L. Pijoan, "PAPR reduction in orthogonal MC and MC-SS systems", Workshop on Special topics on 4G systems, COST289 Spectrum and Power Efficient Broadband Communications, 6-7 July 2005, Antalya, Turkey.

· C.Vilella, D.Miralles, J.C.Socoró, J.L.Pijoan, R.Aquilué, "A new sounding system for HF digital communications from Antarctica", 2005 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP2005), 3-5 August 2005, Seoul, Korea.

· I.Gutiérrez, F. Bader, J.L.Pijoan, M. Deumal, "Performance of a new adaptive grouping and modulation procedure for multiuser group orthogonal MC-CDMA", IASTED Communication Systems and Networks (CSN), 12-14 September 2005, Benidorm, Spain.

· I. Gutiérrez, J.L. Pijoan, M.Deumal, F. Bader, "Adaptive procedure combining adaptive user grouping and bit-loading in a GO-MC-CDMA", COST-289 Workshop on Spectrum and Power Efficient Broadband Communications, Madrid, 3-5 November 2005.

2004

· C. Vilella, J.L. Pijoan, "Software Radio: An Enabling Technology for Mobile Communications (TUTORIAL)", COST-289 Workshop on Spectrum and Power Efficient Broadband Communications, Budapest, 7-9 July 2004.

· P. Bergadà, C. Vilella, "Sodio: A Software Radio platform for advanced HF communications", COST-289 Workshop on Spectrum and Power Efficient Broadband Communications, Budapest, 7-9 July 2004.

· C. Vilella, J.L. Pijoan, "An efficient high performance equalization method for real-valued modulations", Nordic Radio Symposium 2004, 16 -18 August 2004, Oulu, Finland

· M. Deumal, C. Vilella, J.L. Pijoan, P. Bergadà, "Partially Clipping Method for the Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) reduction in OFDM", 15th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2004), 5-8 September 2004, Barcelona, Spain.

 

Others

· J. C. Socoró, J.A. Morán, J.L. Pijoan, J.A. Montero, C. Vilella. "Parameter estimation of wide-band channel model for digital communications system design". COST-251. Workshop on Ionosphere variabilities and ionospheric channel characterisation, September 1998, Paris, France.

· J.L. Pijoan, "Adaptive multiuser detection", COST-262. Workshop on spread spectrum techniques for Wired and Wireless systems, March 1999, Rome.

· J.C. Socoró, J.A. Moran, J.L.Pijoan, C. Vilella, J.R. Regué, "Ionospheric Sounding for a DS-SS HF Radio-Link", COST-262. Workshop on spread spectrum techniques for Wired and Wireless systems, November 1999, Barcelona.

· J.L. Pijoan, J.R. Regué, C. Vilella, J.C. Socoró, J.A. Moran, "DSP-based ionospheric radio-link using DS-SS", COST-262. Workshop on spread spectrum techniques for Wired and Wireless systems, November 1999, Barcelona.

· J.A. Moran, J.C. Socoro, J.L. Pijoan, C.Vilella, J.R. Regue, "Sequential PN acquisition system based on a fuzzy logic controller", COST-262. Workshop on spread spectrum techniques for Wired and Wireless systems, November 1999, Barcelona.

· J.A. Moran, J.C. Socoro, J.L. Pijoan, X.Jove, F.Tarres, "DS-SS Acquisition system based on a Neural Network decisional system", COST-262. Workshop on spread spectrum techniques for Wired and Wireless systems, July 2000, Hamburg

· J. L. Pijoan, J. C. Socoro, J. A. Moran, F.Tarres, "DSP-based ionospheric radiolink using DS-CDMA and on-line channel estimation", Proceedings of 10th Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference Melecon'2000, pp. 860-863, May 2000, Cyprus.

· J.A. Moran, J.C. Socoro, J.L. Pijoan, X.Jove, F.Tarres, "DS-SS Acquisition system based on a Neural Network decisional system", COST-262. Workshop on spread spectrum techniques for Wired and Wireless systems, July 2000, Hamburg

· J.C. Socoró, J.L. Pijoan, J.A. Moran, F. Tarres, "New receivers for DS-SS in time-variant multipath channels based on the PN alignment concept", Proceedings of International Symposium of Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications ISSSTA'2000, pp. 647-651, New Jersey, Sept. 2000.

· J. L. Pijoan, J. C. Socoro, J. A. Moran, F. Tarres, "Blind Channel Estimation for a DS-CDMA Ionospheric Radio-Link", COST 262 Workshop in Multiuser Detection in Spread Spectrum Communications, Ulm, January 2001

· J.A.Morán, J.C. Socorro, X.Jové, J.L. Pijoan, F. Tarrés, “Multiresolution Adaptive Structure for acquisition in DS-SS receiver”, ICASSP 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 2001.

· J.C. Socorro, J.A.Morán, J.L. Pijoan, F. Tarrés, “A blind joint channel and data estimation algorithm for DS-SS ionospheric radiolink”, ICASSP 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 2001.

 

 

 

 

 

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