Prof. Francisco Barceló-Arroyo

School of Telecommunications Engineering

Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Email: barcelo@entel.upc.edu

Qualifications

1997 Ph.D., Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

1987 M.Sc., Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

Publications (Selected)

1. M. Ciurana, F. Barceló-Arroyo, I. Martín-Escalona, “Comparative performance evaluation of IEEE 802.11v for positioning with time of arrival”, Computer Standards & Interfaces, 33 (3), Elsevier, p. 344, March 2011.
2. M. Ciurana, F. Barcelo-Arroyo, Sebastiano Cugno, “A robust to multi-path ranging technique over IEEE 802.11networks”, Wireless Networks, 16, pp. 943-953, Springer, 2010.
3. F. Barcelo-Arroyo, I. Martin-Escalona, C. Manente, “A field study on the fusion of terrestrial and satellite location methods in urban cellular networks”, European Transactions on Telecommunications, Vol. 21, No. 7, pp. 632–639, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2010.
4. F. Barcelo-Arroyo, I. Martin-Escalona, “A survey on Classical Teletraffic Models and Network Planning Issues for Cellular Telephony”, International Journal of Business data Communications and Networking, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 1-15, Idea Group Publishing, December 2009.
5. M. Ciurana, F. Barcelo-Arroyo, S. Cugno, “Tracking mobile targets indoors using wlan and time of arrival”, Computer Communications, Vol. 32, No. 13-14, pp. 1552-1558, Elsevier, August 2009.
6. N. Vassileva, F. Barcelo-Arroyo, “A survey of routing protocols for maximizing the lifetime of ad hoc wireless networks,” International Journal on Software Engineering and Its Applications, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 77-90, July 2008.
7. I Martín-Escalona, F. Barceló-Arroyo, “A new time-based algorithm for positioning mobile terminals in wireless networks”, EURASIP Journal of advances in signal processing, Vol. 8, No. 2, January 2008.
8. E. Zola, F. Barceló, “About the location of Base Stations for a UMTS System: analytical study and simulations”, Journal of Communications and Networks, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 49-58, March 2006.
9. F. Barceló, "Performance Analysis of Handoff Resource Allocation Strategies through the State-Dependent Rejection Scheme", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 900-909, May 2004.
10. J. Casademont, E. Lopez-Aguilera, J. Paradells, A. Rojas, A. Calveras, F. Barceló, J. Cotrina, “Wireless technology applied to GIS”, Computers & Geosciences, Elsevier, Vol. 30, No. 6, pp. 671-682, 2004.
11. I Martín, F. Barceló, J. Paradells, “Delivering Non-Standardized Assistance Data in GSM/GPRS Networks”, European Transactions on Communications, Vol. 15, pp. 111–116, March-April 2004.
12. F. Barceló. J. Paradells, F. Setaki, M. Giebeaux, "Design and modelling of Internode: a Provider Provisioned Mobile VPN", Mobile Networks & Applications, Baltzer Science Publishers, pp. 51-60, February 2003.
13. F. Barceló, J. Jordán, "Channel Holding Time Distribution in Public Telephony Systems", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 49, No. 5, pp. 1615-1625, Sept. 2000.
14. F. Barceló, J. Jordán, "Channel holding time distribution in cellular telephony", IEE Electronics Letters, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 146-147, January 1998.
15. F. Barceló, V. Casares, J. Paradells, "The M/D/C Queue with Priority: Application to trunked Mobile Radio Systems" IEE Electronics Letters, Vol. 32, No. 18, pp. 1644-1645, August 1996.