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Information freshness and high energy-efficiency are key requirements for sensor nodes serving Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications, where a sink node must collect informative data before a deadline to control an external…
We consider the problem of optimizing the freshness of status updates that are sent from a large number of low-power sources to a common access point. The source nodes utilize carrier sensing to reduce collisions and adopt an asynchronized…
As the Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications become more and more pervasive, IoT end nodes are requiring more and more computational power within a few mW of power envelope, coupled with high-speed and energy-efficient inter-chip…
This paper presents design techniques for an energy-efficient multi-lane receiver (RX) with baud-rate clock and data recovery (CDR), which is essential for high-throughput low-latency communication in high-performance computing systems. The…
In the Internet of Things scenarios, it is crucially important to provide low energy consumption of client devices. To address this challenge, new Wi-Fi standards introduce the Target Wake Time (TWT) mechanism. With TWT, devices transmit…
IEEE 802.15.4 takes a center stage in IoT as Low- Rate Wireless Personal Area Networks(LR-WPANs). The standard specifies Offset Quadrature Phase Shift Keying Physical Layer (O-QPSK PHY) with half-sine pulse shaping which can be either…
This paper presents the design and analysis of a wearable CMOS biosensor with three different designs of energy-resolution scalable time-based resistance to digital converters (RDC), targeted towards either minimizing the energy/conversion…
In ambient electromagnetic energy harvesting systems, the input power to the rectifier is low. To improve rectification efficiency, Schottky diodes, which are sensitive to low power, are commonly selected as rectifying devices to convert…
For the characterization of components, systems and signals in the RF and microwave range, several dedicated instruments are in use. In this paper the fundamentals of the RF-signal sampling technique, which has found widespread applications…
This paper presents a novel micro-Doppler energy-based framework for robust multi-target vital signs monitoring using 77-GHz Frequency-Modulated Continuous-Wave (FMCW) radar. Unlike conventional phase-based methods that are susceptible to…
The conventional high-speed Wi-Fi has recently become a contender for low-power Internet-of-Things (IoT) communications. OFDM continues its adoption in the new IoT Wi-Fi standard due to its spectrum efficiency that can support the demand of…
The Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) is ubiquitously available on commodity WiFi devices but is commonly regarded as too coarse for fine-grained sensing. This paper revisits its sensing potential and presents WiRSSI, a bistatic…
Simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) has been proposed to offer communication services and transfer power to the energy harvesting receiver (EHR) concurrently. However, existing works mainly focused on static EHRs,…
Time-sensitive wireless networks are an important enabling building block for many emerging industrial Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Quick prototyping and evaluation of time-sensitive wireless technologies are desirable for R&D…
This paper investigates how to achieve both low-power operations of sensor nodes and accurate state estimation using Kalman filter for internet of things (IoT) monitoring employing wireless sensor networks under radio resource constraint.…
The use of Wake-Up Radio (WUR) in Internet of Things (IoT) networks can significantly improve their energy efficiency: battery-powered sensors can remain in a low-power (sleep) mode while listening for wake-up messages using their WUR and…
Emerging health-monitor applications, such as information transmission through multi-channel neural implants, image and video communication from inside the body etc., calls for ultra-low active power (<50${\mu}$W) high data-rate,…
This paper presents an output capacitor-less low-dropout regulator (LDO) with a bias switching scheme for biomedical applications with dual-range load currents. Power optimization is crucial for systems with multiple activation modes such…
Simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) is an appealing research area because both information and energy can be delivered to wireless devices simultaneously. In this paper, we propose a diplexer-based receiver…
The lightweight protocols and low-power radio technologies open up many opportunities to facilitate Internet-of-Things (IoT) into our daily life, while their minimalist design also makes IoT devices vulnerable to many active attacks due to…