Publications

YEAR 2020

Local Seeing Measurement for Increasing Astrophysical Observatory Quality Images Using an Autonomous Wireless Sensor Network

Raúl Parada, Sergio Teruel-Rueda and Carlos Monzo
MDPI Sensors.  

YEAR 2019

RFID based embedded system for Sustainable Food Management in an IoT network paradigm​

Raúl Parada, Alfonso Palazón, Carlos Monzo and Joan Melià-Seguí
MDPI Future Internet. Special Issue: The Internet of Things for Smart Environments 

Forecasting Water Levels of Catalan Reservoirs

Raúl Parada, Jordi Font and Jordi Casas-Roma​
Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence. MDAI 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11676. Springer, Cham

Fast Initial Access for mm-Wave 5G Systems with Hybrid Beamforming Using On-line Statistics Learning​

Hossein Soleimani, Raúl Parada, Stefano Tomasin and Michele Zorzi​
IEEE Communications Magazine

Statistical approaches for initial access in mmWave 5G systems

Raúl Parada, Hossein Soleimani, Federico Moretto, Stefano Tomasin and Michele Zorzi​
​Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies.
​https://doi.org/10.1002/ett.3683

Predicting Energy Generation Using Forecasting Techniques in Catalan Reservoirs

Raúl Parada, Jordi Font and Jordi Casas-Roma​
​MDPI Energies. Special Issue: Artificial Intelligence in Data Science For Energy Management in Sustainability, 12(10), 1832; https://doi.org/10.3390/en12101832

YEAR 2018

Statistical Approaches for Initial Access in mmWave 5G Systems

Hossein Soleimani, Raúl Parada, Stefano Tomasin and Michele Zorzi​
Full paper in 24th European Wireless, Catania (Italy), 1-6, May

Context-aware Handover in mmWave 5G Using UE’s Direction of Pass

Raúl Parada and Michele Zorzi​
Full paper in 24th European Wireless, Catania (Italy), 1-6, May

Anomaly Detection using RFID-based Information Management in an IoT context

Raúl Parada, Joan Melià-Seguí and Rafael Pous
Journal of Organizational and End User Computing (JOEUC) 30 (3)

YEAR 2017

Internet of THings Area Coverage Analyzer (ITHACA) for complex topographical scenarios

Raúl Parada, Daniel Cárdenes-Tacoronte, Carlos Monzo and Joan Melià-Seguí
MDPI Symmetry Journal. Special Issue “Applications of the Internet of Things”, 9 (10), 237  

Automatic Rate-Distortion Classification for the IoT: Towards Signal-Adaptive Network Protocols

Davide Zordan, Raúl Parada, Michele Rossi and Michele Zorzi
Full paper in IEEE Globecom 2017, Singapore (Republic of Singapore), 1-7, December 

Cell discovery based on historical user’s location in mmWave 5G​​​

Raúl Parada and Michele Zorzi
Full paper in 23rd European Wireless, Dresden (Germany), 1-6, May

Gesture Detection Using Passive RFID Tags to Enable People-Centric IoT Applications​

Raúl Parada and Joan Melià-Seguí 
IEEE Communications Magazine (Volume:55 Issue: 2) Page: 56-61 

YEAR 2016

RFID based People-Object Direction of Pass Detection

Raúl Parada, Joan Melià-Seguí and Rafael Pous.
Workshop in 12th International Conference on Intelligent Environments, London (UK), Vol: 21, Page: 426-435, September

Smart Surface: RFID-based gesture recognition using k-means algorithm

Raúl Parada, Joan Melià-Seguí, Kamruddin Nur and Rafael Pous.
Full paper in 12th International Conference on Intelligent Environments, London (UK), Page: 111-118, ISSN: 2472-7571, September 

Evaluation and deployment of an industrial spring-based RFID reader antenna

Raúl Parada, Joan Melià-Seguí and Rafael Pous.
Note in 10th IEEE RFID Conference, Orlando (USA), 1-4, May

RFID based People-Object Interaction Detection

Raúl Parada Medina. PhD dissertation defended on March 29th with Excellent qualification. 

YEAR 2015

Measuring User-Object Interactions in IoT Spaces

Raúl Parada, Joan Melià-Seguí, Anna Carreras , Marc Morenza-Cinos and Rafael Pous
Poster & Demo at IEEE RFID-TA, Tokio, Japan, 52-58 (Awarded with the Best Paper Silver Prize)

Measuring User-Object Interactions in IoT Spaces

Raúl Parada, Joan Melià-Seguí, Anna Carreras , Marc Morenza-Cinos and Rafael Pous
Full conference paper at IEEE RFID-TA, Tokio, Japan, 52-58

Using RFID to Detect Interactions in Ambient Assisted Living Environments

Raúl Parada, Joan Melià-Seguí, Marc Morenza-Cinos, Anna Carreras and Rafael Pous
IEEE Intelligent Systems  (Volume:30 Issue: 4) Page: 16-22

Towards Measuring User-Object Interaction in IoT Spaces

Raúl Parada, Joan Melià-Seguí, Marc Morenza-Cinos, Anna Carreras and Rafael Pous
Poster at IEEE RFID 2015, San Diego, CA
Awarded at Doctoral Student Workshop at DTIC, UPF 

YEAR 2013

Enhancing the Shopping Experience through RFID in an Actual Retail Store

Joan Melià-Seguí, Rafael Pous, Anna Carreras, Marc Morenza-Cinos, Raúl Parada, Zeinab Liaghat and Ramir De Porrata-Doria
Workshop at UbiComp 2013 Adjunct Publication, 1029-1036

Study of a Monopulse System with RFID Antennas for Applications oriented to Retail Industry

Raúl Parada, Anna Carreras, Joan Melià-Seguí and Rafael Pous
Poster & Demo at UbiComp 2013 Adjunct Publication, 279-282

RFID Smart Surfaces

Raúl Parada
Defended PhD Proposal

YEAR 2012

Enhanced Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service for LTE

Raúl Parada
MSc Thesis in Telecommunications

YEAR 2008

Simulation and optimisation of a highly available Ethernet network

Raúl Parada
Diploma Thesis in Telecommunications

YEAR 2007

Modelado y simulación del sistema informático que da soporte al Campus Digital – LAN&WAN (in Spanish)

Raúl Parada
Internship’s final report