Publications associées à Radio logicielle

RDS: FPGA Routing Delay Sensors for Effective Remote Power Analysis Attacks

Mirjana Stojilovic, Ognjen Glamocanin, David Spielmann

State-of-the-art sensors for measuring FPGA voltage fluctuations are time-to-digital converters (TDCs). They allow detecting voltage fluctuations in the order of a few nanoseconds. The key building component of a TDC is a delay line, typically implemented ...

2023

Enhanced radio-frequency performance of niobium films on copper substrates deposited by high power impulse magnetron sputtering

Fabio Avino

We present a study of radio frequency properties of niobium films deposited on copper by two different approaches based on High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering, namely with a DC voltage biased substrate and with bipolar target voltage. Such approaches e ...

2022

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

Modified Joint Channel-and-Data Estimation for One-Bit Massive MIMO

Saeed Saadatnejad, Mohammadhossein Bahari, Mahdi Amiri

Centralized and cloud computing-based network architectures are the promising tracks of future communication systems where a large scale compute power can be virtualized for various algorithms. These architectures rely on high-performance communication lin ...

IEEE2021

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

Ultra-high-resolution software-defined photonic terahertz spectroscopy

Gabriel Aeppli

A novel technique for high-resolution 1.5 mu m photonics-enabled terahertz (THz) spectroscopy using software control of the illumination spectral line shape (SLS) is presented. The technique enhances the performance of a continuous-wave THz spectrometer to ...

2020

An Open-Source LoRa Physical Layer Prototype on GNU Radio

Andreas Peter Burg, Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Orion Afisiadis, Joachim Tobias Tapparel, Paul Angelin Antoine Mayoraz

LoRa is the proprietary physical layer (PHY) of LoRaWAN, which is a popular Internet-of-Things (IoT) protocol enabling low-power devices to communicate over long ranges. A number of reverse engineering attempts have been published in the last few years tha ...

IEEE2020

A 49 mu W 6th-Order Chebyshev SSF-based Low-Pass Analog Filter for IEEE 802.11ax

Christian Enz, Alessandro Pezzotta, Daniel Mathias Bold, Salvatore Collura

In this paper a continuous-time low-pass analog filter based on the Cascoded Super Source Follower (C-SSF) architecture, implemented in a 28-nm bulk CMOS process, is presented. The target application is the transceiver analog baseband for the next-generati ...

IEEE2020

Lora Digital Receiver Analysis And Implementation

Andreas Peter Burg, Orion Afisiadis, Reza Ghanaatian Jahromi, Matthieu Cotting

Low power wide area network technologies (LPWANs) are attracting attention because they fulfill the need for long range low power communication for the Internet of Things. LoRa is one of the proprietary LPWAN physical layer (PHY) technologies, which provid ...

IEEE2019

HackRF plus GNU Radio: A software-defined radio to teach communication theory

Marina Zapater Sancho, José Luis Ayala Rodrigo, Roman Hermida Correa

In this paper, an alternative to the traditional methodology related to signal processing-like subjects is proposed. These are subjects that require a deep mathematical and theoretical basis, but the practical goal is not often emphasized, which drives stu ...

SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD2019

Design Considerations and Performance Trade-Offs for 56Gb/s Discrete Multi-Tone Electrical Link

Yusuf Leblebici, Gain Kim, Thomas Toifl

For communicating over mid-to-long-reach electrical links at a data-rate above 56Gb/s, ADC-based receiver (RX) has become a dominant architecture due to its strong equalization capability using complex digital signal processing algorithm benefiting from th ...

IEEE2019

SD-WISE: A Software-Defined WIreless SEnsor network

Angelos Christos Anadiotis

In this paper we introduce SD-WISE, a Software-Defined Wireless SEnsor networking solution for Wireless Sensor (and actuator) Networks (WSNs). SD-WISE has several unique features making it a flexible and expandable solution that can be applied in heterogen ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019

High Performance, Continuously Tunable Microwave Filters Using MEMS Devices With Very Large, Controlled, Out-of-Plane Actuation

Matthias Imboden

Software defined radios (SDR) in the microwave X- and K-bands offer the promise of low cost, programmable operation with real-time frequency agility. However, the real world in which such radios operate requires them to be able to detect nanowatt signals i ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2018

Design Techniques for High-Speed Multi-Level Viterbi Detectors and Trellis-Coded-Modulation Decoders

Andreas Peter Burg, Lukas Kull, Thomas Toifl, Giovanni Cherubini

The implementation of a 25.6-Gb/s four-level pulse-amplitude-modulation (4-PAM) reduced-state sliding-block Viterbi detector (VD) is presented. The power consumption of the VD is 105 orilV at a supply voltage of 0.7 V, corresponding to an energy efficiency ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2018

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

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

An Approximate Zero IF FM-UWB Receiver for High Density Wireless Sensor Networks

Christian Enz, Vladimir Kopta

A low-power frequency modulated-ultra-wideband (FM-UWB) receiver for short-range communications, capable of simultaneously demodulating multiple FM-UWB signals located at the same frequency, is presented in this paper. The proposed receiver utilizes an "ap ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

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

Enabling High Frequency Reconfigurable Functions with Graphene

Clara-Fausta Moldovan

As the scaling of complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology is reaching fundamental limitations, novel device concepts and materials have started to be investigated to overcome the scaling challenges for integrated circuits. Graphene has be ...

EPFL2016

Electrothermal actuation of vanadium dioxide for tunable capacitors and microwave filters with integrated microheaters

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Andreas Schueler, Clara-Fausta Moldovan, Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Wolfgang Amadeus Vitale, Antonio Paone, Luca Petit

We report the fabrication, modeling and characterization of novel microwave tunable capacitors based on the metal-insulator transition (MIT) of Vanadium Dioxide (VO2) as a future replacement solution for microelectromechanical capacitive switches. We prese ...

Elsevier Science Sa2016