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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

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

Spike-Based Sensing and Communication for Highly Energy-Efficient Sensor Edge Nodes

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Teodor Rosca

Highly energy-efficient wireless sensor nodes are a prerequisite for a sustainable operation of the Internet of things. Therefore, classical approaches for system design based on digital signal processing are not a viable solution, but system design has to ...

IEEE2022

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

Improving Railway Track Coverage with mmWave Bridges: A Measurement Campaign

Andreas Peter Burg, Ruben Merz, Adrian Schumacher

Bringing cellular capacity into modern trains is challenging because they act as Faraday cages. Building a radio frequency (RF) corridor along the railway tracks ensures a high signal-to-noise ratio and limits handovers. However, building such RF corridors ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

Assessment of the Electromagnetic Field Exposure due to 5G Base Stations using a Monte-Carlo Method: Initial Results

Anja Skrivervik, Tingyong Jiang

The realistic assessment of the Electromagnetic Field exposure due to wireless telecommunication base stations is critical to protect the population from harm due to excessive exposure, and allow wireless service providers to use the available technology i ...

IEEE2021

A portable picocell antenna for 5G

Danelys Rodríguez Avila

Deployable emergency communication systems are a backbone solution for replacing damaged network infrastructures and/or providing high-end services in case of an emergency event. It is important that such systems are up-to-date with the latest mobile netwo ...

EPFL2021

Neural-Network Optimized 1-bit Precoding for Massive MU-MIMO

Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Christoph Studer

Base station (BS) architectures for massive multi-user (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless systems are equipped with hundreds of antennas to serve tens of users on the same time-frequency channel. The immense number of BS antennas incurs hi ...

IEEE2019

Stacked patch antenna and hybrid beamforming network for 5G picocell applications

Anja Skrivervik, Danelys Rodríguez Avila

This paper addresses the design of an antenna array for a portable picocell station with omnidirectional coverage. The proposed solution includes a stacked patch antenna as a single radiating element of the antenna array and a hybrid beamforming network. T ...

IEEE2019

On the Influence of an Elevated Terrain on the Grounding Resistance of a Vertical Rod

Marcos Rubinstein, Antonio Sunjerga

In this paper, we analyze the grounding resistance of a vertical grounding rod located in an elevated terrain. Tall structures such as wind turbines and mobile phone base stations are often installed in remote and hilly locations to gain more power or to f ...

2019

On the Influence of an Elevated Terrain on the Grounding Resistance of a Vertical Rod

Marcos Rubinstein, Antonio Sunjerga, Farhad Rachidi-Haeri

In this paper, we analyze the grounding resistance of a vertical grounding rod located in an elevated terrain. Tall structures such as wind turbines and mobile phone base stations are often installed in remote and hilly locations to gain more power or to f ...

IEEE2019

Reduction of a Cone-Shaped Terrain Grounding Resistance by Remote Grounding

Marcos Rubinstein, Antonio Sunjerga, Farhad Rachidi-Haeri

Tall structures such as wind turbines and mobile phone base stations are often installed in remote and hilly locations to gain more power or to have line of sight to end users. Those locations are usually very rocky and characterized by a low-conductivity ...

IEEE2019

Resource Allocation for Underlaying Device-to-Device Communications Using Maximal Independent Sets and Knapsack Algorithm

Alper Köse

In this paper, we address the resource allocation problem of device-to-device (D2D) communications underlaying orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) based cellular systems by exploiting the efficiency that comes from an ensemble of graph th ...

IEEE2018

A 30 mu W Remotely Powered Local Temperature Monitoring Implantable System

Catherine Dehollain

An implantable local temperature monitoring system for a laboratory mouse is presented. Magnetic coupling is used to remotely power the passive implant. The temperatures of two local points are monitored by thermistors. A low-power readout circuit is imple ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

Wideband Omnidirectional Planar Antenna with Vertical Polarization

Juan Ramon Mosig, Lei Wang

In this paper we propose a circular leaky wave-antenna with omnidirectional radiation in the H-plane. The design utilizes double-layered strips to create an end-fire antenna. A linear tapering of the stripes in the design endows the antenna with a 27% impe ...

Ieee2017

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

184 mu W ultrasonic on-off keying/amplitude-shift keying demodulator for downlink communication in deep implanted medical devices

Catherine Dehollain, Francesco Mazzilli

An ultrasonic on-off keying/amplitude-shift keying demodulator using standard 0.18 mu m CMOS technology is proposed, intended for recovering the identification number of an implanted medical device transmitted from an external base station. The CMOS integr ...

Institution of Engineering and Technology2016

Distributed wireless video caching placement for dynamic adaptive streaming

Pascal Frossard, Chenglin Li

Caching at edge servers can smooth the temporal traffic variability and reduce the service load of base stations in wireless streaming. However, the assignment of the cached content for possibly multiple versions of different video sequences is still a cha ...

2016

Lily: A Miniature Floating Robotic Platform for Programmable Stochastic Self-Assembly

Alcherio Martinoli, Emmanuel Droz, Bahar Haghighat

Fluid-mediated programmable stochastic self-assembly offers promising means to formation of target structures capable of a variety of functionalities. While miniaturized building blocks allow for finer resolutions in such structures, as well as access to u ...

2015

The Beauty of the Commons: Optimal Load Sharing by Base Station Hopping in Wireless Sensor Networks

Martin Vetterli, Patrick Thiran, Guillermo Barrenetxea Kobas, François Ingelrest, Runwei Zhang

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), the base station (BS) is a critical sensor node whose failure causes severe data losses. Deploying multiple fixed BSs improves the robustness, yet requires all BSs to be installed with large batteries and large energy-ha ...

2015