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L-band digital aeronautical communication system type-1 (L-DACS1) is an emerging standard that aims at enhancing air traffic management by transitioning the traditional analog aeronautical communication systems to the superior and highly…
Sharing a common clock signal among the nodes is crucial for communication in synchronized networks. This work presents a heartbeat-based synchronization scheme for body-worn nodes. The principles of this coordination technique combined…
Phase noise correction is crucial to exploit full advantage of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) in modern high-data-rate communications. OFDM channel estimation with simultaneous phase noise compensation has therefore drawn…
The expected operating scenarios of 5G pose a great challenge to orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) which has poor out of band (OoB) spectral properties, stringent synchronization requirements, and large symbol duration.…
During the last years the transfer of frequency signals through optical fibers has shown ultra low instabilities in various configurations. The outstanding experimental results of such point-to-point connections is motivation to develop a…
Estimation problems in wireless sensor networks typically involve gathering and processing data from distributed sensors to infer the state of an environment at the fusion center. However, not all measurements contribute significantly to…
A correlation optical time-domain reflectometry (COTDR) method is presented, which measures the propagation delay with an accuracy of a few picoseconds. This accuracy is achieved using a test signal data rate of 10 Gbit/s and employing…
Recently, there has been a significant interest in developing cooperative sensing systems for certain types of wireless applications. In such systems, a group of sensing nodes periodically collect measurements about the signals being…
We propose in this work a radar detection system for orthogonal-frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmission. We assume that the transmitting antenna Tx is colocated with a monostatic radar. The latter knows the transmitted signal…
We present a method to measure the spectral density of in-band optical transmission impairments without coherent electrical reception and digital signal processing at the receiver. We determine the method's accuracy by numerical simulations…
The principle of Correlation Optical Time Domain Reflectometry (C-OTDR) is proposed to accurately measure the propagation delay over a multi-span optical fiber link. The delay of the transmission fiber is measured in the reflective mode,…
Few-mode multi-core fiber (FM-MCF) based Space-Division Multiplexing (SDM) systems possess the potential to maximize the number of multiplexed spatial channels per fiber by harnessing both the space (fiber cores) and mode (optical mode per…
Dual-function radar-communication (DFRC) systems, which can efficiently utilize the congested spectrum and costly hardware resources by employing one common waveform for both sensing and communication (S&C), have attracted increasing…
Bandwidth constraints limit LoRa implementations. Contemporary IoT applications require higher throughput than that provided by LoRa. This work introduces a LoRa Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) system and a spatial multiplexing…
In this paper, we consider a status updating system where the transmitter sends status updates of the signal it monitors to the destination through a rate-limited link. We consider the scenario where the status of the monitored signal only…
Today's most precise optical instruments -- gravitational-wave interferometers and optical atomic clocks -- rely on long storage times for photons to realize their exquisite sensitivity. Optical fiber technology is the most widely deployed…
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis and theoretical foundation for next-generation backscatter networks that move beyond communication and integrate RF location sensing capabilities. An end-to-end system model for wideband OFDM…
To address the demands in healthcare and industrial settings for spatially resolved magnetic imaging, we present a modular optically pumped magnetometer (OPM) system comprising a multi-sensor array of highly sensitive quantum magnetometers.…
This paper considers a multi-functional orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system with integrated sensing, communication, and powering (ISCAP), in which a multi-antenna base station (BS) transmits OFDM signals to…
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) based multi-carrier systems can support high data rate wireless transmission without the requirement of any extensive equalization and yet offer excellent immunity against fading and…