Publications related to Carrier-sense multiple access with collision detection

Over-the-Air Computation via Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface

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

Sampling and Reconstruction of Bandlimited Signals with Multi-Channel Time Encoding

Martin Vetterli, Karen Adam, Adam James Scholefield

Sampling is classically performed by recording the amplitude of the input at given time instants; however, sampling and reconstructing a signal using multiple devices in parallel becomes a more difficult problem to solve when the devices have an unknown sh ...

2020

Multi-Channel AlGaN/GaN In-Plane-Gate Field-Effect Transistors

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Jun Ma, Catherine Erine, Giovanni Santoruvo

In this letter, we present a multi-channel in-plane-gate field effect transistor (MC-IPGFET). In the proposed device, multiple vertically stacked two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) are simultaneously controlled by lateral in-plane gates formed with the ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2020

Destination buffer analysis for packets rejection obliteration in multi-channel networks

Georgia Fragkouli

In this paper we study a multi-channel network, each station of which is equipped with a network interface that has a receiver buffer of multiple packets. In this way, each station is able to receive multiple packets per time instant. We adopt a synchronou ...

2019

Demonstration of Kramers-Kronig Detection of Four 20-Gbaud 16-QAM Channels after 50-km Transmission Using Kerr Combs to Perform Shared Phase Estimation

Tobias Kippenberg, Maxim Karpov, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Arne Kordts, Fatemeh Alishahi, Ahmad Fallahpour

We experimentally demonstrate KK detection of four 20-Gbaud 16-QAM channels after 50-km transmission using two soliton Kerr combs at transmitter and receiver. The frequency comb coherence enables a shared phase noise estimation among multiple channels. (C) ...

IEEE2019

A 30-frames/s, 252 x 144 SPAD Flash LiDAR With 1728 Dual-Clock 48.8-ps TDCs, and Pixel-Wise Integrated Histogramming

Edoardo Charbon, Ivan Michel Antolovic, Scott Anthony Lindner, Chunmin Zhang, Juan Mata Pavia, Martin Wolf

A 252 x 144 single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) pixel sensor, called Ocelot, is reported for light detection and ranging (LiDAR). The sensor, fabricated in the 180-nm CMOS technology, features 1728 12-bit time-to-digital converters (TDCs) with 48.8-ps res ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

Communication Versus Computation: Duality for Multiple-Access Channels and Source Coding

Michael Christoph Gastpar, Sung Hoon Lim, Jingge Zhu

Computation codes in network information theory are designed for scenarios where the decoder is not interested in recovering the information sources themselves, but only a function thereof. Körner and Marton showed for distributed source coding (DSC) that ...

2019

Field-effect transistor device or sensor for sensing ions, molecules or biomarkers in a fluid

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Junrui Zhang, Erick Antonio Garcia Cordero, Francesco Bellando

The present disclosure concerns a Field-Effect Transistor device or sensor comprising at least one drain region, at least one source region, at least a channel region, at least a first gate connected to the channel region, at least one stack comprising at ...

2019

Compute–Forward Multiple Access (CFMA): Practical Implementations

Michael Christoph Gastpar, Sung Hoon Lim, Jingge Zhu, Erixhen Sula, Adriano Pastore

We present a practical strategy that aims to attain rate points on the dominant face of the multiple access channel capacity using a standard low complexity decoder. This technique is built upon recent theoretical developments of Zhu and Gastpar on compute ...

2019

A CMOS SPAD Imager with Collision Detection and 128 Dynamically Reallocating TDCs for Single-Photon Counting and 3D Time-of-Flight Imaging

Edoardo Charbon, Ivan Michel Antolovic, Scott Anthony Lindner, Chunmin Zhang, Martin Wolf

Per-pixel time-to-digital converter (TDC) architectures have been exploited by single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) sensors to achieve high photon throughput, but at the expense of fill factor, pixel pitch and readout efficiency. In contrast, TDC sharing a ...

2018

A 100 kb/s, 4 GHz, 267 mu W Fully Integrated Low Power FM-UWB Transceiver with Multiple Channels

Christian Enz, Vladimir Kopta

A 4 GHz, 100 kb/s FM-UWB transceiver for short-range communications in a body area network is presented. Two receivers and a transmitter use the same RF port with a fully-integrated matching network. The first receiver provides multi-user communication cap ...

IEEE2018

Csma/ca in time and frequency domains

Patrick Thiran, Julien Pierre Sacha Herzen

The present invention concerns a method for a communication device to transmit a data packet in a wireless communication system. The method comprises: determining (21) a first set of transmission parameters comprising a first central transmission frequency ...

2017

Compute-forward multiple access (CFMA) with nested LDPC codes

Michael Christoph Gastpar, Sung Hoon Lim, Jingge Zhu, Erixhen Sula, Adriano Pastore

Inspired by the compute-and-forward scheme from Nazer and Gastpar, a novel multiple-access scheme introduced by Zhu and Gastpar makes use of nested lattice codes and sequential decoding of linear combinations of codewords to recover the individual messages ...

2017

How CSMA/CA With Deferral Affects Performance and Dynamics in Power-Line Communications

Patrick Thiran, Julien Pierre Sacha Herzen, Christina Vlachou

Power-line communications (PLC) are becoming a key component in home networking, because they provide easy and high-throughput connectivity. The dominant MAC protocol for high data-rate PLC, the IEEE 1901, employs a CSMA/CA mechanism similar to the backoff ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

Cross-Layer Energy-Efficiency Optimization of Packet Based Wireless MIMO Communication Systems

Andreas Peter Burg, Georgios Karakonstantis, Carl Christian Sten Dominic Senning

Energy in today's short-range wireless communication is mostly spent on the analog-and digital hardware rather than on radiated power. Hence, purely information-theoretic considerations fail to achieve the lowest energy per information bit and the optimiza ...

Springer Verlag2016

Analysis and Enhancement of CSMA/CA With Deferral in Power-Line Communications

Patrick Thiran, Julien Pierre Sacha Herzen, Christina Vlachou

Power-line communications are employed in home networking to provide easy and high-throughput connectivity. The IEEE 1901, the MAC protocol for power-line networks, employs a CSMA/CA protocol similar to that of 802.11, but is substantially more complex, wh ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

Measuring, Modeling and Enhancing Power-Line Communications

Christina Vlachou

Power-line communication (PLC) is a technology that has become very popular, as it offers easy and high-throughput connectivity in local networks. Although it is widely adopted in hybrid PLC/WiFi networks and commercially successful, PLC has received littl ...

EPFL2016

CSMA/CA in Time and Frequency Domains

Patrick Thiran, Julien Pierre Sacha Herzen

It has recently been shown that flexible channelization, whereby wireless stations adapt their spectrum bands on a per-frame basis, is feasible in practice. In this paper, we propose TF-CSMA/CA, an algorithm for flexible channelization that schedules packe ...

IEEE2015

Baseband and RF hardware impairments in full-duplex wireless systems: experimental characterisation and suppression

Andreas Peter Burg, Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Pavle Belanovic, Andrew Charles Mallory Austin

Hardware imperfections can significantly reduce the performance of full-duplex wireless systems by introducing non-idealities and random effects that make it challenging to fully suppress self-interference. Previous research has mostly focused on analysing ...

Hindawi Publishing Corporation2015

Random Access With Physical-Layer Network Coding

Michael Christoph Gastpar, Jasper Goseling

We consider a physical-layer network coding strategy for the random-access channel, based on compute-and-forward. When packets collide, it is possible to reliably recover a linear combination of the packets at the receiver. Over many rounds of transmission ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015