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Vibration energy harvesting is a promising solution for powering battery-free IoT systems; however, the instability of ambient vibrations presents significant challenges, such as limited harvested energy, intermittent power supply, and poor…

The presence of multiple stable states and associated nonlinear phenomena, such as hysteresis, in multistable mechanical metamaterials enables frequency-independent energy harvesting and shock absorption. This study focuses on shock…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-03-16 Sneha Srikanth , Andres F. Arrieta

Simultaneous vibration control and energy harvesting of vehicle suspensions have attracted significant research attention over the past decades. However, existing energy harvesting shock absorbers (EHSAs) are mainly designed based on the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-13 Mohammad R. Hajidavalloo , Joel Cosner , Zhaojian Li , Wei-Che Tai , Ziyou Song

The simultaneous wireless transfer of information and power with the help of a relay equipped with multiple antennas is considered in this letter, where a harvest-and-forward strategy is proposed. In particular, the relay harvests energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Zheng Zhou , Mugen Peng , Zhongyuan Zhao , Yong Li

Energy harvesting (EH) IoT devices that operate intermittently without batteries, coupled with advances in deep neural networks (DNNs), have opened up new opportunities for enabling sustainable smart applications. Nevertheless, implementing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Sahidul Islam , Jieren Deng , Shanglin Zhou , Chen Pan , Caiwen Ding , Mimi Xie

Bistable mechanisms are prevalent across a broad spectrum of applications due to their ability to maintain two distinct stable states. Their energy consumption is predominantly confined to the process of state transitions, thereby enhancing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-08-21 Malte A. ten Wolde , Davood Farhadi

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) backscatter is a promising candidate for battery-free Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Unlike existing commodity-level BLE backscatter systems that only enable one-shot communication through BLE advertising…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Huixin Dong , Yijie Wu , Feiyu Li , Wei Kuang , Yuan He , Qian Zhang , Wei Wang

We consider power allocation for an access-controlled transmitter with energy harvesting capability based on causal observations of the channel fading state. We assume that the system operates in a time-slotted fashion and the channel gain…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Zhe Wang , Vaneet Aggarwal , Xiaodong Wang

In this paper, we consider a MIMO networked control system with an energy harvesting sensor, where an unstable MIMO dynamic system is connected to a controller via a MIMO fading channel. We focus on the energy harvesting and MIMO precoding…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Songfu Cai , Vincent K. N. Lau

Modern systems will increasingly rely on energy harvested from their environment. Such systems utilize batteries to smoothen out the random fluctuations in harvested energy. These fluctuations induce highly variable battery charge and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Rajshekhar Vishweshwar Bhat , Mehul Motani , Teng Joon Lim

Motivated by the recent development of energy harvesting communications, and the trend of multimedia contents caching and push at the access edge and user terminals, this paper considers how to design an effective push mechanism of energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Jie Gong , Sheng Zhou , Zhenyu Zhou , Zhisheng Niu

In this paper, we examine the potential for a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) to be powered by energy harvested from information signals. This feature might be key to reap the benefits of RIS technology's lower power consumption…

This paper considers a multi-user system, where the users first harvest energy from the base station and then use the harvested energy to transmit information via non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA). A pinching antenna array is adopted to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Saeid Pakravan , Mohsen Ahmadzadeh , Ming Zeng , Xingwang Li , Fang Fang

We demonstrate the world's first hybrid radio platform which combines the strengths of active radio (long range and robustness to interference) and Computational RFIDs (low power consumption). We evaluate the Wireless Identification and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ivar in 't Veen , Qingzhi Liu , Przemysław Pawełczak , Aaron Parks , Joshua R. Smith

We propose and develop an electrical and mechanical system model of a single-axis linear-motion kinetic energy harvester for impulsive excitation that allows its generated load power to be numerically optimised as a function of design…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Michael N. Struwig , Riaan Wolhuter , Thomas Niesler

Energy efficiency is closely related to the evolution of biological systems and is important to their information processing. In this paper, we calculated the excitation probability of a simple model of a bistable biological unit in…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Chi Zhang , Li-Wei Liu , Long-Fei Wang , Yuan Yue , Lian-Chun Yu

Networked low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations enabled by inter-satellite links offer a promising path toward ubiquitous broadband non-terrestrial services. However, fast orbital motion induces frequent scheduling updates and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Yuchen Zhang , Eva Lagunas , Symeon Chatzinotas , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

We present hardware/software techniques to intelligently regulate supply voltage and clock frequency of intermittently-computing devices. These devices rely on ambient energy harvesting to power their operation and small capacitors as…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Andrea Maioli , Kevin A. Quinones , Saad Ahmed , Muhammad H. Alizai , Luca Mottola

This paper considers downlink multicast transmit beamforming for secure layered transmission systems with wireless simultaneous information and power transfer. We study the power allocation algorithm design for minimizing the total transmit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober , Hussein Alnuweiri

This paper provides a first study of utilizing energy harvesting for sustainable machine learning in distributed networks. We consider a distributed learning setup in which a machine learning model is trained over a large number of devices…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Basak Guler , Aylin Yener