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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

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

A Maximum-Likelihood-Based Two-User Receiver for LoRa Chirp Spread-Spectrum Modulation

Andreas Peter Burg, Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Orion Afisiadis, Joachim Tobias Tapparel, Mathieu Pierre Xhonneux

Long Range (LoRa) is an emerging low-power wide-area network technology offering long-range wireless connectivity to Internet of Things (IoT) devices. For energy efficiency reasons, LoRa end nodes implement a nonslotted ALOHA multiple access scheme to tran ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

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

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

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

A New Kinematic Model and Control Strategy for a Mobile Platform for Transporting Lightweight Manipulators

Andres San Millan Rodriguez

This work is concerned with the mechanical design and the description of the different components of a new mobile base for a lightweight mobile manipulator. These kinds of mobile manipulators are normally composed of multiple lightweight links mounted on a ...

MDPI2018

A 100 kb/s, 4 GHz, 267 mu W Fully Integrated Low Power FM-UWB Transceiver with Multiple Channels

Christian Enz, Vladimir Kopta

A 4 GHz, 100 kb/s FM-UWB transceiver for short-range communications in a body area network is presented. Two receivers and a transmitter use the same RF port with a fully-integrated matching network. The first receiver provides multi-user communication cap ...

IEEE2018

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

Ultra Low Power FM-UWB Transceiver for High-Density Wireless Sensor Networks

Vladimir Kopta

The WiseSkin project aims to provide a non-invasive solution for restoration of a natural sense of touch to persons using prosthetic limbs. By embedding sensor nodes into the silicone coating of the prosthesis, which acts as a sensory skin, WiseSkin target ...

EPFL2018

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

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

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

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

Passive UHF RFID Systems for Capacitive Sensing Applications

Kerem Kapucu

In this work, a complete passive UHF RFID system for capacitive sensing applications is developed to be used in food quality monitoring and supply chain management. All the components of the RFID system including the base station, the base station antenna, ...

EPFL2015

Space, people, networks : exploring the relationship between built structures and seamless wireless communication infrastructures

Selena Savic

In this thesis, I investigate wireless communication from an architectural perspective. I am using design prototypes to explore possibilities for interaction and designing with wirelessness in mind. The public primarily regards wireless networking technolo ...

EPFL2015

Base-Station Design for Passive UHF RFID Tags with Pulse-Width Modulated Backscattering

Catherine Dehollain, Kerem Kapucu

In this work, a base-station design is proposed for passive UHF RFID tags that use pulse-width modulation (PWM) in backscattering communication. The theoretical analysis of the PWM backscattering is presented along with the challenges it creates in the bas ...

Ieee2014

Energy Efficient Collaborative Beamforming in Wireless Sensor Networks

Energy efficiency is a major design issue in the context of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). If the acquired data is to be sent to a far-away base station, collaborative beamforming performed by the sensors may help to distribute the communication load amon ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2014

Remotely-Powered Batteryless Implantable Local Temperature Monitoring System for Freely Moving Mice

Brown adipose fat tissue of a mouse dissipates the animal’s energy in the form of heat. Chronically recording the temperature of this tissue helps biologists to study the metabolism of the animal and gain new insights about the obesity in humans. Such temp ...

EPFL2014