Publications related to Wireless access point

Integrated Wireless Power, Data Communication, and Thermal Sensing System for Autonomous Multisite Brain Implants

Implanted medical devices (IMDs) have been widely developed to support the monitoring and recording of biological data inside the body or brain. Wirelessly powered IMDs, a subset of implantable electronics, have been proposed to eliminate the limitations r ...

EPFL2024

REMOTE: Re-thinking Task Mapping on Wireless 2.5D Systems-on-Package for Hotspot Removal

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Giovanni Ansaloni, Darong Huang, Rafael Medina Morillas

2.5D Systems-on-Package (SoPs) are composed by several chiplets placed on an interposer. They are becoming increasingly popular as they enable easy integration of electronic components in the same package and high fabrication yields. Nevertheless, they int ...

2023

SecureCells: A Secure Compartmentalized Architecture

Babak Falsafi, Mathias Josef Payer, Yuanlong Li, Andrés Sánchez Marín, Florian Hofhammer, Siddharth Gupta, Atri Bhattacharyya

Modern programs are monolithic, combining code of varied provenance without isolation, all the while running on network-connected devices. A vulnerability in any component may compromise code and data of all other components. Compartmentalization separates ...

2023

Robust Resource-Aware Self-Triggered Model Predictive Control

Colin Neil Jones, Yuning Jiang, Yingzhao Lian

The wide adoption of wireless devices in the Internet of Things requires controllers that are able to operate with limited resources, such as battery life. Operating these devices robustly in an uncertain environment, while managing available resources, in ...

2022

Beam Selection and Tracking for Amplify-and-Forward Repeaters

Andreas Peter Burg, Ruben Merz, Adrian Schumacher

Mobile network operators constantly have to upgrade their cellular network to satisfy the public's hunger for increasing data capacity. However, regulatory limits regarding allowed electromagnetic field strength on existing cell sites often limit or preven ...

IEEE2022

Theoretical Efficiency and Dosimetry of Buffered On-body Transmitter Antennas for Wireless Powering of In-body Devices

Anja Skrivervik, Denys Nikolayev

The viable and safe application of wireless power transfer for powering bioelectronic implants requires understanding the wave propagation in heterogeneous and dispersive media, the electromagnetic exposure assessment, and the optimum design of the system ...

IEEE2022

Hybrid Wireless-Local Communication via Information Propagation for Modular Robotic Synchronization Applications

Jamie Paik, Kevin Andrew Holdcroft, Christoph Heinrich Belke, Alexander Thomas Sigrist

Modular robots hold promise of adaptability, robustness, and versatility. Synchronization of modules is critical; if a module is asynchronous, not only will the robot fail to perform tasks properly, but its behavior may be self-destructive through self-col ...

WILEY2022

Cellular Fronthauling for Data Capacity Increase in Underserved Spaces

Adrian Schumacher

The increase in wireless data traffic continues and is a product of several factors. First, new technologies and capabilities enable new use cases for which new products emerge. Then, with the growing user adoption over time, the data traffic is further in ...

EPFL2022

Propagation-Loss Characterization for Livestock Implantables at (433,868,1400) MHz

Denys Nikolayev

Automated systems based on wearable sensors for livestock monitoring are becoming increasingly popular. Specifically, wireless in-body sensors could yield relevant data, such as ruminal temperature. The collection of such data requires an accurate characte ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Over-the-Air Computation via Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface

Yuning Jiang, Wei Chen

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) is a disruptive technique for fast wireless data aggregation in Internet of Things (IoT) networks via exploiting the waveform superposition property of multiple-access channels. However, the performance of AirComp is bott ...

2021

Safeguarding the IoT From Malware Epidemics: A Percolation Theory Approach

Ainur Zhaikhan

The upcoming Internet of Things (IoT) is foreseen to encompass massive numbers of connected devices, smart objects, and cyber-physical systems. Due to the large scale and massive deployment of devices, it is deemed infeasible to safeguard 100% of the devic ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

A 49 mu W 6th-Order Chebyshev SSF-based Low-Pass Analog Filter for IEEE 802.11ax

Christian Enz, Alessandro Pezzotta, Daniel Mathias Bold, Salvatore Collura

In this paper a continuous-time low-pass analog filter based on the Cascoded Super Source Follower (C-SSF) architecture, implemented in a 28-nm bulk CMOS process, is presented. The target application is the transceiver analog baseband for the next-generati ...

IEEE2020

Joint Antenna-Channel Modelling for in-to-out-Body Propagation of Dairy Cows at 868 MHz

Denys Nikolayev

In this paper, for the first time, the in-to-out-body path loss between a capsule antenna placed inside the cows' rumen and a distant gateway was characterized at 868 MHz. Measurements were conducted on five different fistulated cows in a dairy barn. The i ...

IEEE2020

On Polar Coding For Finite Blocklength Secret Key Generation Over Wireless Channels

Yanina Yurina Shkel

We consider the problem of secret key generation from correlated Gaussian random variables in the finite blocklength regime. Such keys could be used to encrypt communication in IoT networks, and have provable secrecy guarantees in contrast to classic crypt ...

IEEE2020

Optimal Radiation of Body-Implanted Capsules

Denys Nikolayev

Autonomous implantable bioelectronics requires efficient radiating structures for data transfer and wireless powering. The radiation of body-implanted capsules is investigated to obtain the explicit radiation optima for E- and B-coupled sources of arbitrar ...

2019

Classic Electrically Small Antennas Versus in/On-Body Antennas: Similarities and Differences

Anja Skrivervik

Electrically small antennas (ESAs) have been discussed since the early radio days, when all antennas were small compared to the wavelength. The boom of mobile phones triggered a second wave of intense research activity on these devices, which continues tod ...

The European Associationa onAntennas and Propagation (EurAAP)2019

TIP: Tangible e-Ink Paper Manipulatives for Classroom Orchestration

Pierre Dillenbourg, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Ayberk Özgür, Hala Khodr, Alex The Duy Tran

While digital tools are more and more used in classrooms, teachers' common practice remains to use photocopied paper documents to share and collect learning exercises from their students. With the Tangible e-Ink Paper (TIP) system, we aim to explore the us ...

ACM2019

Electrically small antenna design: from mobile phones to implanted sensors

Anja Skrivervik, Zvonimir Sipus

In this review, intended to introduce the convened session on electrically small antennas, we describe the evolution of electrically small antennas from the early nineties, when the boom of mobile phones triggered an intense research activity on the, to ou ...

The European Association on Antennas and Propagation (EurAAP)2019

On the Delays in Time-Varying Networks: Does Larger Service-Rate Variance Imply Larger Delays?

Patrick Thiran, Sébastien Christophe Henri

In all networks, link or route capacities fluctuate for multiple reasons, e.g., fading and multi-path effects on wireless channels, interference and contending users on a shared medium, varying loads in WAN routers, impedance changes on power-line channels ...

2018

Multi-Armed Bandit in Action: Optimizing Performance in Dynamic Hybrid Networks

Patrick Thiran, Sébastien Christophe Henri, Christina Vlachou

Today's home networks are often composed of several technologies such as Wi-Fi or power-line communication (PLC). Yet, current network protocols rarely fully harness this diversity and use each technology for a specific, pre-defined role, for example, wire ...

2018