Publications related to Mobile broadband

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

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

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

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

Increasing Cellular Network Energy Efficiency for Railway Corridors

Andreas Peter Burg, Ruben Merz, Adrian Schumacher

Modern trains act as Faraday cages making it challenging to provide high cellular data capacities to passengers. A solution is the deployment of linear cells along railway tracks, forming a cellular corridor. To provide a sufficiently high data capacity, m ...

IEEE2022

Smartphone Sensing for the Well-being of Young Adults: A Review

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Lakmal Buddika Meegahapola

Over the years, mobile phones have become versatile devices with a multitude of capabilities due to the plethora of embedded sensors that enable them to capture rich data unobtrusively. In a world where people are more conscious regarding their health and ...

2021

Adding Indoor Capacity without Fiber Backhaul: An mmWave Bridge Prototype

Andreas Peter Burg, Ruben Merz, Adrian Schumacher

Today, a large portion of mobile data traffic is consumed behind the shielding walls of buildings or in the Faraday cage of trains. This renders cellular network coverage from outdoor cell sites difficult. Indoor small cells and distributed antennas along ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Learning Urban Nightlife Routines from Mobile Data

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Thanh Trung Phan

The use of smartphone sensing for public health studies is appealing to understand routines. We present an approach to learn nightlife routines in a smartphone sensing dataset volunteered by 184 young people (1586 weekend nights with location data captured ...

ACM2020

Dual Connectivity-Based Mobility Management and Data Split Mechanism in 4G/5G Cellular Networks

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

The emerging 5G mobile network technology is envisioned to provide an efficient platform to interconnect machines, objects, and devices in addition to interconnecting people. Equipped with peak data rates, low latency, and massive capacity, 5G technology w ...

2020

Ultra-Broadband and Omnidirectional Perfect Absorber Based on Copper Nanowire/Carbon Nanotube Hierarchical Structure

Giulia Tagliabue, Fateme Kiani Shahvandi, Theodoros Tsoulos

Zero reflection and complete light absorption are required in a wide range of applications ranging from sensing devices to solar heaters and photoelectrodes. However, simultaneously satisfying the requirements of the broadband spectrum, omnidirectionality, ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Nanophotonic supercontinuum based mid-infrared dual-comb spectroscopy

Luc Thévenaz, Tobias Kippenberg, Camille Sophie Brès, Junqiu Liu, Hairun Guo, Wenle Weng, Wolfgang Hänsel

We demonstrate a broadband mid-infrared dual-comb spectroscopy for parallel gas-phase detection in the functional group region from 2800–3600 cm−1, using dispersion engineered silicon nitride dual-core waveguides which produce broadband, intensity-enhanced ...

Optical Society2019

Assessing the interplay between human mobility and mosquito borne diseases in urban environments

Emanuele Massaro

Urbanization drives the epidemiology of infectious diseases to many threats and new challenges. In this research, we study the interplay between human mobility and dengue outbreaks in the complex urban environment of the city-state of Singapore. We integra ...

Springer Nature2019

Design and Experimental Validation of an LTE-Based Synchrophasor Network in a Medium Voltage Distribution Grid

Mario Paolone, Asja Derviskadic, Paolo Romano, Marco Pignati, Lorenzo Zanni

We present and experimentally validate in a real-scale medium voltage (MV) grid a synchrophasor network that exploits the availability of a public 4G LTE communication infrastructure. An 18 buses, 10 kV feeder located in Huissen, The Netherlands, has been ...

Power Systems Computation Conference2018

Broadband Low-Frequency Electroacoustic Absorbers Through Hybrid Sensor-/Shunt-Based Impedance Control

Hervé Lissek, Etienne Thierry Jean-Luc Rivet, Sami Driss Karkar

This paper proposes a hybrid impedance control architecture for an electroacoustic absorber, that combines an improved microphone-based feedforward control with a currentdriven electrodynamic loudspeaker system. Feedforward control architecture enables sta ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

Mobile Sensor Networks for Air Quality Monitoring in Urban Settings

Adrian Arfire

With urban populations rapidly increasing and millions of deaths being attributed annually to air pollution, there is a critical need for a deeper understanding of urban air quality. The locality of urban emissions sources, and the specific topography of c ...

EPFL2016

Reconfigurable electronics based on metal-insulator transition : steep-slope switches and high frequency functions enabled by Vanadium Dioxide

Wolfgang Amadeus Vitale

The vast majority of disruptive innovations in science and technology has been originated from the discovery of a new material or the way its properties have been exploited to create novel devices and systems. New advanced nanomaterials will have a lasting ...

EPFL2016

Versatile spectral modulation of a broadband source for digital holographic microscopy

Christophe Moser, Tristan Colomb, Gaël Nardin

We demonstrate the potential of spatial light modulators for the spectral control of a broadband source in digital holographic microscopy. Used in a ‘pulse-shaping’ geometry, the spatial light modulator provides a versatile control over the bandwidth and w ...

Optical Society of America2016

H2B2VS (HEVC Hybrid Broadcast Broadband Video Services) – building innovative solutions over hybrid networks

Claudio Paolo Alberti

Broadcast and broadband networks continue to be separate worlds in the video consumption business. Some initiatives such as HbbTV have built a bridge between both worlds, but its application is almost limited to providing links over the broadcast channel t ...

2015

The neocortical microcircuit collaboration portal: a resource for rat somatosensory cortex

Henry Markram, Sean Lewis Hill, Eilif Benjamin Muller, Lida Kanari, Srikanth Ramaswamy, Ying Shi, Rajnish Ranjan, Michael Reimann, Felix Schürmann, James Gonzalo King, Marwan Muhammad Ahmed Abdellah, Julian Charles Shillcock, Giuseppe Chindemi, Ahmet Bilgili, Idan Segev, Daniel Keller, Werner Alfons Hilda Van Geit, Yun Wang, Jean-Denis Georges Emile Courcol, Juan Bautista Hernando Vieites, John Richard Walker, Stefan Eilemann, Michael Emiel Gevaert, Martin Telefont, Guy Antoine Atenekeng Kahou, Nicolas Antille, Raphael Dumusc, Jeffrey Christopher Muller, Jafet Villafranca Diaz, Selim Arsever, Joseph William Graham, Athanassia Chalimourda, Stefano Zaninetta, Yury Brukau, Stanislaw Ryszard Adaszewski

We have established a multi-constraint, data-driven process to digitally reconstruct, and simulate prototypical neocortical microcircuitry, using sparse experimental data. We applied this process to reconstruct the microcircuitry of the somatosensory corte ...

2015

A Responsive Design Approach for Supporting Mobile Access to Virtual and Remote Laboratories

Na Li

Remote and virtual laboratories aim to overcome typical constraints of traditional laboratories and offer access to laboratory experiments without location and time restrictions. Additionally, the continuous growth of mobile devices’ ownership, as well as ...

2014

A Parallelized Layered QC-LDPC Decoder for IEEE 802.11ad

Andreas Peter Burg, Alessandro Cevrero, Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Nicholas Alexander Preyss

We present a doubly parallelized layered quasi-cyclic low density parity-check decoder for the emerging IEEE 802.11ad multigigabit wireless standard. The decoding algorithm is equivalent to a nonparallelized layered decoder and, thus, retains its favorable ...

IEEE2013