Publications related to Fading

Small antennas with broad beamwidth integrated on a drone enclosed in a protective structure

In this paper, we analyze the integration of small antennas in a drone protected by a conductive structure. They must be light and resistant to provide high collision resilience, which is critical for drones flown indoors and in complex environments. To ac ...

IEEE2023

Optimal Combination Policies For Adaptive Social Learning

Virginia Bordignon, Ping Hu, Stefan Vlaski

This paper investigates the effect of combination policies on the performance of adaptive social learning in non-stationary environments. By analyzing the relation between the error probability and the underlying graph topology, we prove that in the slow a ...

IEEE2022

A Correlation-Based Electromagnetic Time Reversal Technique to Locate Indoor Transient Radiation Sources

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Zhaoyang Wang, Qi Li

To overcome the multipath interference in locating transient electromagnetic (EM) radiation sources in an indoor environment, we propose a criterion that calculates the correlation between back-propagated signals from observation points, to be used in EM t ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2021

Time-Varying Components for Enhancing Wireless Transfer of Power and Information

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Mohammad Sajjad Mirmoosa, Xuchen Wang

Temporal modulation of components of electromagnetic systems provides an exceptional opportunity to engineer the response of those systems in a desired fashion, both in the time and frequency domains. For engineering time-modulated systems, one needs to th ...

American Physical Society (APS)2021

Bluetooth Low Energy Direction Finding Principle

Yves Perriard, Alexis Boegli, Pooneh Mohaghegh

The ubiquitous implementation of 5G networks and the Internet of Things (IoT), brings about the importance of indoor localization. Even though Global Positioning System (GPS) provides an efficient outdoor Positioning System (PS), indoor positioning techniq ...

IEEE2021

Spectral Properties of the Signal in Phase-Sensitive Optical Time-Domain Reflectometry with Direct Detection

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Li Zhang, Xin Lu

The spectral properties of the Rayleigh backscattered traces measured by a phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometer (øOTDR) with direct detection are theoretically and experimentally analyzed. The spectrum of the measured øOTDR signal is found to ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2020

Network coded multipath and related techniques

Emre Telatar, Arno Schneuwly, Derya Malak

Techniques are disclosed for adaptive coding and scheduling of packets in wireless networks. The adaptive coding and scheduling can be achieved by utilizing a discrete water filling (DWF) scheme. In an example, a computer-implemented method to adaptively c ...

2020

A 4.8pJ/b 6Gb/s ADC-Based PAM-4 Wireline Receiver Data -Path with Cyclic Prefix in 14nm FinFET

Andreas Peter Burg, Cosimo Aprile, Yusuf Leblebici, Alessandro Cevrero, Gain Kim, Lukas Kull, Ilter Ozkaya, Thomas Toifl

This work presents an ADC-bascd receiver (RX) data-path for frame-based PAM-4 modulation with a cyclic prefix (CP). Similar to discrete multi-tone (DMT) modulation, a frame of PAM-4 symbols arc protected from the channel delay spread by the CP taps. A PAM- ...

IEEE2019

Streaming From a Moving Platform with Real-Time and Playback Distortion Constraints

Laura Toni, Giuseppe Cocco

Video streaming from remotely controlled moving platforms such as drones have stringent constraints in terms of delay. In some applications such videos have to provide real-time visual feedback to the pilot with an acceptable distortion while satisfying hi ...

IEEE2019

ISI Sensitivity of PAM Signaling for Very High-Speed Short-Reach Copper Links

Yusuf Leblebici, Seyed Armin Tajalli, Firat Çelik, Ayça Akkaya

This paper presents a comparative study, analyzing the potentials of pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) for implementing next generation high-speed copper wireline links. This comparative study analyzes the sensitivities of PAM2, PAM4 and PAM8 to inter-symbo ...

IEEE2019

Cross-Packet Coding for Delay-Constrained Streaming Applications

Dario Floreano, Giuseppe Cocco

Delay-constrained streaming from a moving platform is of paramount importance for applications such as the remote control of drones, where a low-delay video stream is required in order to provide visual feedback to the pilot while providing high quality vi ...

2019

Parameter Estimation with GNSS-Reflectometry and GNSS Synthetic Aperture Techniques

Miguel Angel Ribot Sanfelix

Aside from intentional interference, multipath is the most significant error source for Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) receivers in many operational scenarios. In this thesis, we study the multipath estimation from two different perspectives: t ...

EPFL2018

Multi-Tone Signaling and ADC-Based Digital Receiver for High-Speed Wireline Serial Links

Gain Kim

The exponential growth of Internet traffic and related demands for higher communication speed pushes processor-to-processor and processor-to-memory interconnects to provide further higher data-rate. Often time, processor-to-memory interconnectsâ speed is ...

EPFL2018

Design and Implementation of a Neural Network Aided Self Interference Cancellation Scheme for Full-Duplex Radios

Andreas Peter Burg, Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Yann Kurzo

In-band full-duplex systems are able to transmit and receive information simultaneously on the same frequency band. Due to the strong self-interference caused by the transmitter to its own receiver, the use of non-linear digital self interference cancellat ...

IEEE2018

Parallel Implementation Technique of Digital Equalizer for Ultra-High-Speed Wireline Receiver

Cosimo Aprile, Yusuf Leblebici, Alessandro Cevrero, Lukas Kull, Gain Kim, Ilter Ozkaya, Thomas Toifl

This paper presents a parallel implementation technique of digital equalizer for high-speed wireline serial link receiver (RX). In wireline RX, inter-symbol interference (ISI) is mitigated by continuous-time linear equalizer, and the remaining ISI is cance ...

2018

Design and Modeling of Serial Data Transceiver Architecture by Employing Multi-Tone Single-Sideband Signaling Scheme

Yusuf Leblebici, Gain Kim, Kiarash Gharibdoust, Chen Cao, Thierry Barailler

This paper presents the design and analysis of a serial link transceiver (TRX) architecture employing analog multi-tone (AMT) signaling for chip-to-chip communication. Multi-tone single-sideband (SSB) signaling scheme is proposed in TRX architecture in ord ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

Fano-resonance-assisted metasurface for color routing

Olivier Martin, Chen Yan, Kuang-Yu Yang

Controlling the phase of an electromagnetic field using plasmonic nanostructures provides a versatile way to manipulate light at the nanoscale. Broadband phase modulation has been demonstrated using inhomogeneous metasurfaces with different geometries; how ...

2017

Carrier Tracking using Extended Kalman Filters for GNSS Synthetic Aperture Processing with a Rotating Antenna

Pierre-André Farine, Joaquin Cabeza de Pablo, Cyril Botteron, Miguel Angel Ribot Sanfelix

A single GNSS antenna moving along a known trajectory can be used to synthesize a virtual array in order to apply spatial diversity techniques, e.g. beamforming. With these techniques, referred as synthetic aperture (SA) techniques, the receiver can mitiga ...

2017

A Time-Division Multiplexing Signaling Scheme for Inter-Symbol/Channel Interference Reduction in Low-Power Multi-Drop Memory Links

Seyed Armin Tajalli, Yusuf Leblebici, Gain Kim, Kiarash Gharibdoust, Chen Cao

A time-division multiplexing (TDM) digital channel coding scheme with inter-symbol interference (ICI) reduction property for multi-drop memory interfaces has been proposed. Shaping the TX spectrum to avoid channel frequency notches, the proposed digital TD ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

GNSS Multipath Estimation and Mitigation Using a Rotating Antenna

Pierre-André Farine, Joaquin Cabeza de Pablo, Cyril Botteron, Miguel Angel Ribot Sanfelix

We describe the experimental framework that we have developed to study the use of synthetic aperture in GNSS receivers to estimate and mitigate multipath interference. By combining the signal received by a single moving antenna during different time instan ...

2017