Publications related to Low-power wide-area network

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

DChannel: Accelerating Mobile ApplicationsWith Parallel High-bandwidth and Low-latency Channels

Haitham Al Hassanieh

Interactive mobile applications like web browsing and gaming are known to benefit significantly from low latency networking, as applications communicate with cloud servers and other users' devices. Emerging mobile channel standards have not met these needs ...

USENIX ASSOC2023

Indoor Real-time localization system design for Internet of Things applications

Pooneh Mohaghegh

With the prevalence of smartphones, watches, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices, the ability to track their positions is becoming increasingly important. For many indoor positioning systems (IPSs), providing an uninterrupted flow of information in real-t ...

EPFL2023

A Low-Complexity LoRa Synchronization Algorithm Robust to Sampling Time Offsets

Orion Afisiadis, Mathieu Pierre Xhonneux

LoRaWAN is nowadays one of the most popular protocols for low-power Internet of Things communications. Although its physical layer, namely LoRa, has been thoroughly studied in the literature, aspects related to the synchronization of LoRa receivers have re ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

BLURtooth: Exploiting Cross-Transport Key Derivation in Bluetooth Classic and Bluetooth Low Energy

Mathias Josef Payer, Daniele Antonioli

Bluetooth is a pervasive wireless technology specified in an open standard. The standard defines Bluetooth Classic (BT) for high-throughput wireless services and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) very low-power ones. The standard also specifies security mechanism ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2022

Strategies, Techniques and Systems for powering low-maintenance and battery-free devices through Energy Harvesting and Wireless Power Transfer

Roberto La Rosa

The purpose of this research has a background in the market for Internet of Things (IoT)devices and wireless sensor networks. The Market Forecast predicts the connection of a trillion"things" by 2025. The global smart sensor market size trend grows from US ...

EPFL2022

Enhancing the Reliability of Dense LoRaWAN Networks With Multi-User Receivers

Andreas Peter Burg, Joachim Tobias Tapparel, Mathieu Pierre Xhonneux

LoRaWAN is a low-power wireless technology that provides long-range connectivity to battery-powered Internet of Things (IoT) devices. To minimize the energy consumption of the IoT nodes, LoRaWAN networks use for the uplink a pure non-slotted ALOHA multiple ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

System-level Design of Adaptive Wearable Sensors for Health and Wellness Monitoring

Elisabetta De Giovanni

In recent years, population aging and the consequent higher incidence of noncommunicable diseases, have increased the need for long-term health monitoring. Moreover, as healthcare cost is projected to grow substantially by 2030 in OECD countries, the deman ...

EPFL2021

Drone-aided Localization in LoRa IoT Networks

Dario Floreano, Alexandru Rusu, Fabrizio Schiano, Giuseppe Cocco

Besides being part of the Internet of Things (IoT), drones can play a relevant role in it as enablers. The 3D mobility of UAVs can be exploited to improve node localization in IoT networks for, e.g., search and rescue or goods localization and tracking. On ...

IEEE2020

Physical Layer Aspects of LoRa and Full-Duplex Wireless Transceivers

Orion Afisiadis

Wireless communications are currently faced with two main challenges. The first challenge stems from the enormous number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices that transmit very small amounts of data. The second challenge is the need for ever-increasing data ...

EPFL2020

Jointly Optimizing Sensing Pipelines for Multimodal Mixed Reality Interaction

Lakmal Buddika Meegahapola

Natural human interactions for Mixed Reality Applications are overwhelmingly multimodal: humans communicate intent and instructions via a combination of visual, aural and gestural cues. However, supporting low-latency and accurate comprehension of such mul ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2020

Lora Digital Receiver Analysis And Implementation

Andreas Peter Burg, Orion Afisiadis, Reza Ghanaatian Jahromi, Matthieu Cotting

Low power wide area network technologies (LPWANs) are attracting attention because they fulfill the need for long range low power communication for the Internet of Things. LoRa is one of the proprietary LPWAN physical layer (PHY) technologies, which provid ...

IEEE2019

Toward ultra-low power design methodology for frequency generation in the IoT design space

Mathieu Yves Hervé Coustans

Today, the semiconductor industry is feeding our digital world with more and more data coming from compact embedded electronics that are monitoring our environment and feeding analytics for action. Interaction with our digital world is mostly achieved thro ...

EPFL2019

OpenIoT: Open Source Internet-of-Things in the Cloud

Karl Aberer, Manfred Hauswirth, Jean Paul Calbimonte Perez, Ivana Podnar, Mehdi Riahi

Despite the proliferation of Internet-of-Things (IoT) platforms for building and deploying IoT applications in the cloud, there is still no easy way to integrate heterogeneous geographically and administratively dispersed sensors and IoT services in a sema ...

Springer2015

RF MEMS power sensors for ultra-low power wake-up circuit applications

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Catherine Dehollain, Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Antonios Bazigos, Wolfgang Amadeus Vitale

Power savings requirements in wake-up circuits and RFID applications can greatly benefit from the emerging RF MEM technology. In this paper we report an RF MEM power sensor that can simultaneously offer significant power savings and co-integration with wak ...

2013

Structured Overlay For Heterogeneous Environments: Design and Evaluation of Oscar

Karl Aberer, Anwitaman Datta, Sarunas Girdzijauskas

Recent years have seen advances in building large internet-scale index structures, generally known as structured overlays. Early structured overlays realized distributed hash tables (DHTs) which are ill suited for anything but exact queries. The need to su ...

2010

Reconfiguration Strategies for Environmentally Powered Devices: Theoretical Analysis and Experimental Validation

Giovanni De Micheli, David Atienza Alonso, Alexandru Emilian Susu

Environmental energy is becoming a feasible alternative to traditional energy sources for ultra low-power devices such as sensor nodes. These devices can run reactive applications that adapt their control flow depending on the sensed data. In order to redu ...

Springer-Verlag Berling2007