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In this work, we propose a new energy efficiency metric which allows one to optimize the performance of a wireless system through a novel power control mechanism. The proposed metric possesses two important features. First, it considers the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-09-07 Vineeth S Varma , Samson Lasaulce , Yezekael Hayel , Salah E Elayoubi , Merouane Debbah

Recent years have witnessed a proliferation of battery-powered mobile devices, e.g., smartphones, tablets, sensors, and laptops, which leads a significant demand for high capacity wireless communication with high energy efficiency. Among…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Makoto Kobayashi , Ryo Murakami , Shunsuke Saruwatari , Takashi Watanabe

Fast wireless access has rapidly become commonplace. Wireless access points and Hotspot servers are sprouting everywhere. Battery lifetime continues to be a critical issue in mobile computing. This paper first gives an overview of WLAN…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-11-09 T. Simunic

Extraction of electromagnetic energy by an antenna from impinging external radiation is at the basis of wireless communications and power transfer (WPT). The maximum of transferred energy is ensured when the antenna is conjugately matched,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-04-11 Alex Krasnok , Denis G. Baranov , Andrey Generalov , Sergey Li , Andrea Alu

Current radio systems are currently optimized for capacity and range. However, certain applications of wireless systems require fast and reliable communication over short distances. The challenge of these systems is to communicate with a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-30 Raja Sattiraju , Jasper Siemons , Mohammad Soliman , Wasim Alshrafi , Fabian Rein , Hans D. Schotten

Battery aging is one of the major concerns for the pervasive devices such as smartphones, wearables and laptops. Current battery aging mitigation approaches only partially leverage the available options to prolong battery lifetime. In this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Tamoghna Ojha , Theofanis P. Raptis , Marco Conti , Andrea Passarella

The industry is satisfying the increasing demand for wireless bandwidth by densely deploying a large number of access points which are centrally managed, e.g. enterprise WiFi networks deployed in university campuses, companies, airports…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-05-02 Antonios Michaloliakos , Ryan Rogalin , Yonglong Zhang , Konstantinos Psounis , Giuseppe Caire

The advancement of next-generation Wi-Fi technology heavily relies on sensing capabilities, which play a pivotal role in enabling sophisticated applications. In response to the growing demand for large-scale deployments, contemporary Wi-Fi…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-29 Yuxuan Liu , Chiya Zhang , Yifeng Yuan , Chunlong He , Weizheng Zhang , Gaojie Chen

The vision of seamlessly integrating information transfer (IT) and microwave based power transfer (PT) in the same system has led to the emergence of a new research area, called wirelessly power communications (WPC). Extensive research has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Kaibin Huang , Caijun Zhong , Guangxu Zhu

Deployment of low cost power beacons (PBs) is a promising solution for dedicated wireless power transfer (WPT) in future wireless networks. In this paper, we present a tractable model for PB-assisted millimeter wave (mmWave) wireless ad hoc…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Xiaohui Zhou , Jing Guo , Salman Durrani , Marco Di Renzo

In this era of modern devices and high speed communication the issue of spectral overloading is increasing with time and becoming more serious. With the advancement in LED industry, light fidelity (Li-Fi) based indoor network is an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Farooq Aftab

Low-altitude uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become integral enablers for the Internet of Things (IoT) by offering enhanced coverage, improved connectivity and access to remote areas. A critical challenge limiting their operational…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Chengzhen Li , Likun Zhang , Chuang Zhang , Jiahui Li , Changyuan Zhao , Ruichen Zhang , Geng Sun

Crowdsourcing wireless energy is a novel and convenient solution to charge nearby IoT devices. Several applications have been proposed to enable peer-to-peer wireless energy charging. However, none of them considered the energy efficiency…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Pengwei Yang , Amani Abusafia , Abdallah Lakhdari , Athman Bouguettaya

Battery-free computational RFID platforms, such as WISP (Wireless Identification and Sensing Platform), are emerging intermittently powered devices designed for replacing existing battery-powered sensor networks. As their applications…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Kasım Sinan Yıldırım , Henko Aantjes , Amjad Yousef Majid , Przemysław Pawełczak

New network architectures, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), 5G, and next-generation (NextG) cellular systems, put forward emerging challenges to the design of future wireless networks toward ultra-high data rate, massive data…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Jiahao Xue , Zhe Qu , Shangqing Zhao , Yao Liu , Zhuo Lu

In this letter, a novel wireless powered protocol is proposed to maximize the system throughput of an energy harvesting (EH) based cognitive radio network, while satisfying a minimum primary user rate requirement. For EH, we exploit both…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Anirudh Agarwal , Deepak Mishra

In this paper, we present WACA, the first system to simultaneously measure the energy in all 24 Wi-Fi channels that allow channel bonding at 5 GHz with microsecond scale granularity. With WACA, we perform a first-of-its-kind measurement…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Sergio Barrachina-Muñoz , Boris Bellalta , Edward Knightly

In this paper, we aim to maximize the energy efficiency of cellular wireless networks. Specifically, we address the power allocation problem in multi-cell multi-carrier systems. Considering realistic base station power consumption models,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Kemal Davaslioglu , Cemil Can Coskun , Ender Ayanoglu

Rapid technological advances in the domain of Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) pave the way for novel methods for power management in systems of wireless devices and recent research works have already started considering algorithmic solutions…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Ioannis Katsidimas , Sotiris Nikoletseas , Theofanis P. Raptis , Christoforos Raptopoulos

With current efforts to design Future Internet Architectures (FIAs), the evaluation and comparison of different proposals is an interesting research challenge. Previously, metrics such as bandwidth or latency have commonly been used to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-10-10 Chen Chen , David Barrera , Adrian Perrig