Publications

2003 Best Paper (Senior) Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society

Jaume Riba, Josep Sala, Gregori Vázquez

‘‘Conditional Maximum Likelihood Timing Estimation: Performance and Bounds’

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. April 2001. ISSN 1053-587X.

Message from the editor-in-chief. Society news

PhD. Thesis

Author: Jaume Riba Sagarra

Advisor: Gregori Vázquez Grau

Procesado de Señal Bayesiano en Estimación Conjunta de Frecuencia y Tiempo de Llegada

(A Bayesian Signal Processing Approach to Joint Frequency and Time-Delay Estimation)

Department of Signal Theory and Communications, January 1997

Author: Jesús Selva Vera

Advisor: Jaume Riba Sagarra

Efficient Multipath Mitigation in Navigation Systems

Department of Signal Theory and Communications, February 2004

Author: Andreu Urruela Planas

Advisor: Jaume Riba Sagarra

Signal Processing Techniques for Wireless Locationing

Department of Signal Theory and Communications, 20^th June 2006

Book chapters

2000

• Gregori Vázquez, Jaume Riba, G. B. Giannakis, Y. Hua, P. Stoica, and L. Tong, “Non-Data-Aided Digital Synchronization”, in Signal Process. Adv. Wireless Mobile Commun.. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, July 2000, vol. 2, Trends in Single- and Multi-User Systems, ch. 9.

Journals and Magazines

2006

• Andreu Urruela, Josep Sala and Jaume Riba, “Average performance analysis of circular and hyperbolic geolocation”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 55, Issue 1, pp. 52-66, January 2006.

2005

• Aleksandar Dogandzic, Jaume Riba, Gonzalo Seco and A. Lee Swindlehurst, (Guest editors for the Special Issue on Signal Processing for Positioning and Navigation with applications to Communications), “Positioning and navigation with applications to communications”, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Vol. 22, Issue 4, pp. 10-11, July 2005.

2004

• Jaume Riba, “A Performance Lower Bound for Quadratic Timing Recovery Accounting for the Symbol Transition Density”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 52, No. 11, pp. 3278-3288, November 2004.

2001

• Jaume Riba, Josep Sala and Gregori Vázquez, “Conditional Maximum Likelihhod Timing Recovery: Estimators and Bounds”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 49, No. 4, pp. 835-850, April 2001.

1997

• Jaume Riba, Jason Goldberg and Gregori Vázquez, “Robust Beamforming for Interference Rejection in Mobile Communications”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol 45, No 1, pp. 271-275, January 1997.

1994

• Jaume Riba and Gregori Vázquez, “Bayesian Recursive Estimation of Frequency and Timing Exploiting the Cyclostationary Property”, Signal Processing (EURASIP), Vol 40, No. 1, pp. 21-37, October 1994.

Conferences

2006

• Andreu Urruela, Alba Pagès and Jaume Riba, “Divide-and-conquer closed-form position estimation for AOA and TDOA measurements”, Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP’2006, Toulouse (France), 14-19 May 2006.

2005

• Andreu Urruela, Helena Morata and Jaume Riba, “NLOS mitigation based on a Trellis Search for Wireless Location”, The 2005 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, SPAWC 2005, New York (USA), 5-8 June 2005.

2004

• Andreu Urruela and Jaume Riba, “Efficient mobile location from time measurements with unknown variances in dynamic scenarios”, The 2004 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, SPAWC 2004, Lisbon, Portugal, 11-14 July 2004.
• Jaume Riba, “Impact of symbol transition density on timing estimation”, The 2004 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, SPAWC 2004, Lisbon, Portugal, 11-14 July 2004.
• Andreu Urruela and Jaume Riba, “Novel closed-form ML position estimator for hyperbolic location”, Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP’2004, Montreal, Quebec (Canada), 17-21 May 2004.
• Jaume Riba and Andreu Urruela, “A non-line-of-sight mitigation technique based on ML-detection”, Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP’2004, Montreal, Quebec (Canada), 17-21 May 2004.

2003

• Jaume Riba, Francisco Barcelo, Fulvio Sansone, Monique Gibeaux, Cyrille Manente, Sergio Di Girolamo, “Innovative hybridised GNSS and cellular positioning technology for high performance location based services”, 10th Wold Congress and Exhibition on Intelligent Transport Systems and Services, Madrid (Spain), 16-20 November 2003.
• Andreu Urruela and Jaume Riba, “A novel estimator and theoretical limits for in-car radiolocation ”, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC 2003 - Fall, Orlando (Florida, USA), 4-9 October 2003.
• Jaume Riba y Meritxell Lamarca, “Metodologias de implementacion para demodulacion y decodificacion digitales” I Jornadas de Codisseny Hardware-Software. Universitat de Vic., pp. 129-139, Vic (Spain), 26-27 June, 2003.
• Andreu Urruela and Jaume Riba, “A novel estimator and performance bound for time propagation and doppler based radio-location”, Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP’2003, Hong Kong, 6-10 April 2003.

2002

• Jaume Riba and Andreu Urruela, “A robust multipath mitigation technique for time of arrival estimation”, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC 2002 - Fall, Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada), 24–28 September 2002.
• Andreu Urruela and Jaume Riba, “Data compression algorithm in localization problems”, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC 2002 - Fall, Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada), 24–28 September 2002.
• Jaume Riba, Nicolas Bourdeau and Monique Gibeaux, “Hybridised GPS and GSM positioning technology: high performances for Location Based Services”, IST Mobile & Wireless Telecommunications Summit 2002, Thessaloniki (Greece), 16-19 June 2002.

2001

• Gregori Vázquez, Xavi Villares and Jaume Riba, “Optimal Quadratic NDA Synchronization”, Seventh International Workshop on Digital Signal Processing Techniques for Space Communications, Sesimbra (Portugal), 1-3 October 2001.
• Jaume Riba and Josep Sala, “The Acatel 9343 DVB-OBP Product: An On-Board Processor for Digital Television and Internet Data”, Seventh International Workshop on Digital Signal Processing Techniques for Space Communications, Sesimbra (Portugal), 1-3 October 2001.
• Meritxell Lamarca, Jaume Riba, Josep Sala, Gregori Vazquez and Xavi Villares, “A Digital On-Board Receive Chain for a DVB On Board Processing System”, Seventh International Workshop on Digital Signal Processing Techniques for Space Communications, Sesimbra (Portugal), 1-3 October 2001.
• Xavi Villares, Gregori Vázquez and Jaume Riba, “Fourth Order Non-Data-Aided Synchronization”, Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP’2001, pp. 2345 -2348 vol.4, Salt Lake City (Utah), 7-11 May 2001.
• Jaume Riba y Gregori Vázquez, “Parameter estimation of binary CPM signals”, Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP’2001, pp. 2561-2561 vol.4, Salt Lake City (Utah), 7-11 May 2001.
• Meritxell Lamarca, Jaume Riba, Josep Sala, Gregori Vazquez y Xavi Villares, “DVB-Forward: A Digital Television / Internet Payload”, 19th AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC’01), Toulouse (France), 17-20 Abril 2001.

2000

• Francesc Rey, Gregori Vázquez and Jaume Riba, “Joint Synchronization and Symbol Detection in Asynchronous DS-CDMA Systems ”, Proc. of 10th IEEE Signal Processing Workshop on Statistical Signal and Array Processing. SSAP'00, Pocono Manor, PA (USA).14-16 August 2000.
• Francesc Rey, Gregori Vázquez y Jaume Riba, “Minimum Conditioned Variance (MCV) propagation delay estimation for Asynchronous DS-CDMA Systems ”, Proc. of 4th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics. Special Session: Statistical and Array Signal Processing. SCI'00, pp. 230-235 (Vol. 6), Orlando, FL (USA). July 2000.
• Jaume Riba y Gregori Vázquez, “Non-Data-Aided Frequency Offset and Symbol Timing Estimation for Binary CPM: Performance Bounds ”, Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP’2000, pp. 2549-2552, Istanbul (Turkey). 5-9 June 2000.

1999

• Francesc Rey, Gregori Vázquez and Jaume Riba, “Near-Far Resistant CML Propagation Delay Estimation and Multi-User Detection for Asynchronous DS-CDMA Systems ”, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC 1999 - Fall, Amsterdam, 19-22 September 1999.
• Jaume Riba y Gregori Vázquez, “Conditional Maximum Likelihhod Timing Recovery ”, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP’99, Phoenix (Arizona, USA), 15-19 March 1999.

1998

• Jesús Tomé, Jaume Riba and M.Angel Lagunas, “Fast Joint Code-Frequency DS-CDMA Acquisition for LEO Satellite-Mobile Communication and Navigation ”, 2nd European Symposium on Global Navigation Satellite Systems. GNSS’98, Toulouse (France), 20-23 October, 1998.
• Jaume Riba and M.Angel Lagunas, “Instantaneous Open-Loop Frequency Estimation Methods for Navigation Receivers ”, 6th International Workshop on Digital Signal Processing Techniques for Space Applications, DSP’98. Noordwijk (ESA/ESTEC), 23-25 September, 1998.

1996

• Jaume Riba, Jason Goldberg and Gregori Vázquez, “Robust Data Detection in Asynchronous DS-CDMA in the Presence of Frequency Timing Uncertainty”, 8th IEEE Signal Processing Workshop on Statistical Signal and Array Processing, pp. 521-524, Corfú (Greece). 24-26 June 1996.
• Jaume Riba, Jason Goldberg, Gregori Vázquez and Miguel Angel Lagunas, “Signal Selective DOA Tracking for Multiple Moving Targets ”, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP’96, Atlanta (Georgia, USA), 7-10 Mayo 1996.

1994

• Jaume Riba and Gregori Vázquez, “Recursive Bayes Risk Parameters Estimation form the Cyclic Autocorrelation Matrix”, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP’99, pags. 409-412. Vol. 4, Adelaida (Australia), 19-22 April 1994.