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Billions of IoT devices are deployed worldwide and batteries are their main power source. However, these batteries are bulky, short-lived and full of hazardous chemicals that damage our environment. Relying on batteries is not a sustainable…

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Data collection in an IoT environment requires simple and effective communication solutions to address resource constraints, ensure network efficiency, while achieving scalability. Efficiency is evaluated based on the timeliness of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Asmad Bin Abdul Razzaque , Andrea Baiocchi

This paper investigates the massive random access for a huge amount of user devices served by a base station (BS) equipped with a massive number of antennas. We consider a grant-free unsourced random access (U-RA) scheme where all users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Xinyu Xie , Yongpeng Wu , Junyuan Gao , Wenjun Zhang

The pinching-antenna architecture has emerged as a promising solution for reconfiguring wireless propagation environments and enhancing system performance. While prior research has primarily focused on sum-rate maximization or transmit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Ming Zeng , Xingwang Li , Ji Wang , Gaojian Huang , Octavia A. Dobre , Zhiguo Ding

IoT networks with grant-free radio access, like SigFox and LoRa, offer low-cost durable communications over unlicensed band. These networks are becoming more and more popular due to the ever-increasing need for ultra durable, in terms of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-03 Meysam Masoudi , Amin Azari , Emre Altug Yavuz , Cicek Cavdar

Reliable and resilient communication is essential for disaster recovery and emergency response, yet terrestrial infrastructure often fails during large-scale natural disasters. This paper proposes a High-Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Bilal Karaman , Ilhan Basturk , Engin Zeydan , Ferdi Kara , Esra Aycan Beyazit , Sezai Taskin , Halim Yanikomeroglu

The Internet of Things (IoT) enables a wide variety of applications where large sensor networks are deployed in remote areas without power grid access. Thus, the sensor nodes often run on batteries, whose replacement and disposal represent…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Martina Capuzzo , Carmen Delgado , Jeroen Famaey , Andrea Zanella

Internet of Things (IoT) devices communicate using a variety of protocols, differing in many aspects, with the channel access method being one of the most important. Most of the transmission technologies explicitly designed for IoT and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Daniel Zucchetto , Andrea Zanella

Interconnectivity of production machines is a key feature of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). This feature allows for many advantages in producing. Configuration and maintenance gets easier, as access to the given production unit…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Simon Duque Anton , Daniel Fraunholz , Janis Zemitis , Frederic Pohl , Hans Dieter Schotten

We propose a coordinated random access scheme for industrial internet-of-things (IIoT) scenarios, with machine-type devices (MTDs) generating sporadic correlated traffic. This occurs, e.g., when external events trigger data generation at…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Alberto Rech , Stefano Tomasin

Non Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) is a key technique to satisfy large users densities in future wireless networks. However, NOMA may provide poor performance compared to Orthogonal Multiple Access (OMA) due to inter-user interference.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Mylene Pischella , Ivan Stupia , Luc Vandendorpe

The tremendous growth in the number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has increased focus on the energy efficiency and security of an IoT device. In this paper, we will present a design level, non-volatile adiabatic architecture for…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Zachary Kahleifeh , Himanshu Thapliyal

An expansion of Internet of Things (IoTs) has led to significant challenges in wireless data harvesting, dissemination, and energy management due to the massive volumes of data generated by IoT devices. These challenges are exacerbated by…

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The success of Internet-of-Things (IoT) paradigm relies on, among other things, developing energy-efficient communication techniques that can enable information exchange among billions of battery-operated IoT devices. With its technological…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-26 J. Kartheek Devineni , Harpreet S. Dhillon

In this paper, we analyze the performance of a time-slotted multi-antenna wireless powered communication (WPC) system, where a wireless device first harvests radio frequency (RF) energy from a power station (PS) in the downlink to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Rania Morsi , Elena Boshkovska , Esmat Ramadan , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

The Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem allows communication between billions of devices worldwide that are collecting data autonomously. The vast amount of data generated by these devices must be controlled totally securely. The centralized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Seyed Meysam Zarei , Reza Fotohi

Recent research on reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) suggests that the RIS panel, containing passive elements, enhances channel performance for the internet of things (IoT) systems by reflecting transmitted signals to the receiving…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-23 Shakil Ahmed , Mohamed Y. Selim , Ahmed E. Kamal

Internet-of-Things (IoT) is rapidly growing in wireless technology, aiming to connect vast numbers of devices to gather and distribute vital information. Despite individual devices having low energy consumption, the cumulative demand…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Shayan Zargari , Azar Hakimi , Fatemeh Rezaei , Chintha Tellambura , Amine Maaref

Energy harvesting offers an attractive and promising mechanism to power low-energy devices. However, it alone is insufficient to enable an energy-neutral operation, which can eliminate tedious battery charging and replacement requirements.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-13 Yigit Tuncel , Ganapati Bhat , Jaehyun Park , Umit Ogras