Publications associées à Micro-HF

A New Analytical Approximation of the Fluid Antenna System Channel

Fluid antenna systems (FAS) are an emerging technology that promises a significant diversity gain even in the smallest spaces. It consists of a freely moving antenna in a small linear space to pick up the strongest received signal. Previous works in the li ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2023

Radiation Patterns of RF Wireless Devices Implanted in Small Animals: Unexpected Deformations Due to Body Resonance

Anja Skrivervik, Stéphanie Lacour, Mingxiang Gao, Zvonimir Sipus, German Augusto Ramirez Arroyave, Kangling Wu, James Daniel Rosenthal

One challenge in designing RF wireless bioelectronic devices is the impact of the interaction between electromagnetic waves and host body tissues on far-field wireless performance. In this paper, we investigate a peculiar phenomenon of implantable RF wirel ...

2023

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

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

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

Design and Implementation of a Neural Network Based Predistorter for Enhanced Mobile Broadband

Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming

Digital predistortion is the process of using digital signal processing to correct nonlinearities caused by the analog RF front-end of a wireless transmitter. These nonlinearities contribute to adjacent channel leakage, degrade the error vector magnitude o ...

IEEE2019

Pyramic: Full Stack Open Microphone Array Architecture And Dataset

René Beuchat, Robin Scheibler, Corentin Ferry

In this paper we introduce an open source and reproducible microphone array hardware design and an anechoic dataset recorded with this array. The Pyramic array has 48 microphones spread onto six identical modules connected to an FPGA-ARM combo. The arrange ...

IEEE2018

Ultra-Wide Band Diversity Antenna for Omnidirectional Coverage

Anja Skrivervik, Maxime Volery, Tatjana Asenov

In this paper, a 41 x 42.2 mm2 ultra-wide band (UWB) diversity antenna is designed to operate in the frequency band 5.45- 7.45 GHz with the isolation better than 15dB. To achieve omnidirectional coverage pattern diversity is applied. The proposed design is ...

The European Association on Antennas and Propagation (EurAAP)2018

Non-Linear Digital Self-Interference Cancellation for In-Band Full-Duplex Radios Using Neural Networks

Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming

Full-duplex systems require very strong self-interference cancellation in order to operate correctly and a significant part of the self-interference signal is due to non-linear effects created by various transceiver impairments. As such, linear cancellatio ...

IEEE2018

Improving Throughput, Latency and Privacy with Hybrid Networks and Multipath Routing

Sébastien Christophe Henri

Over the last few years, residential and enterprise networking have faced several challenges due to the increasing demand of users for high-throughput connectivity. As a result, efforts are being made to improve coverage, throughput, and robustness. Severa ...

EPFL2018

Throughput Analysis of Large Networks : Spatial Diversity, Beamforming Gain, and Transmission Modes

Serj Haddad

While wired infrastructure constitutes the backbone of most wireless networks, wireless systems appeal the most to the dynamic and rapidly evolving requirements of today's communication systems because of their ease of deployment and mobility, not to menti ...

EPFL2017

Development of Leaky-Wave Antenna Applications with Acoustics Metamaterials: from the Acoustic Dispersive Prism to Sound Direction Finding with a Single Microphone

Juan Ramon Mosig, Hervé Lissek, Seyyed Hussein Seyyed Esfahlani, Sami Driss Karkar

Recent studies have focused on developing metamaterials for acoustic applications, inspired by electromagnetics concepts. The acoustic leaky-wave antenna is amongst the most investigated. Despite the unfavourable properties of conventional matter and struc ...

IEEE2017

Method and apparatus for presenting to a user of a wearable apparatus additional information related to an audio scene

Martin Vetterli, Ivan Dokmanic, Juri Ranieri

A method for presenting to a user of a wearable audio device a modified audio scene together with additional information related to the audio scene, comprising: capturing audio signals with a plurality of microphones; outputting an audio signal with a plur ...

2017

Localization of Sound Sources in a Room with One Microphone

Pierre Vandergheynst, Hervé Lissek, Helena Peic Tukuljac

Estimation of the location of sound sources is usually done using microphone arrays. Such settings provide an environment where we know the difference between the received signals among different microphones in the terms of phase or attenuation, which enab ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2017

Synthèse temps-réel d’impédance acoustique distribuée

Hervé Lissek, Sami Driss Karkar, Gaël Matten

Dans le contexte de la réduction des nuisances sonores générées par l’aviation civile due au bruit généré par lesréacteurs, une des solutions envisagées réside dans l’utilisation d’un revêtement actif permettant de diminuer lapropagation des ondes sonores ...

2016

Protection Strategy against IEMI for Wireless Communication Infrastructures

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Nicolas Mora Parra, Mirjana Stojilovic

In this paper, we present a methodology for estimating the protection levels of critical equipment against IEMI. We apply the method to a wireless communication infrastructure, but it can be applied to any critical infrastructure. The required protection l ...

Ieee2016

Modulation, Coding, and Receiver Design for Gigabit mmWave Communication

Nicholas Alexander Preyss

While wireless communication has become an ubiquitous part of our daily life and the world around us, it has not been able yet to deliver the multi-gigabit throughput required for applications like high-definition video transmission or cellular backhaul co ...

EPFL2016

Feature mapping using far-field microphones for distant speech recognition

David Imseng, Petr Motlicek

Acoustic modeling based on deep architectures has recently gained remarkable success, with substantial improvement of speech recognition accuracy in several automatic speech recognition (ASR) tasks. For distant speech recognition, the multi-channel deep ne ...

2016

Approaching soft X-ray wavelengths in nanomagnet-based microwave technology

Haiming Yu, Dirk Grundler

Seven decades after the discovery of collective spin excitations in microwave-irradiated ferromagnets, there has been a rebirth of magnonics. However, magnetic nanodevices will enable smart GHz-to-THz devices at low power consumption only, if such spin wav ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Hearing assistance system

Hervé Lissek, Patrick Marmaroli, Gilles André Courtois

There is provided a hearing assistance system, comprising a transmission unit (10) comprising a microphone arrangement (17) for capturing audio signals from a voice of a speaker ( 11 ) using the transmission unit and being adapted to transmit the audio sig ...

2016