{"title":"Efficient Node Localization in Energy-Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks","authors":"Ahmad El Assaf, S. Zaidi, S. Affes, N. Kandil","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324441","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a novel localization algorithm tailored for energy-harvesting wireless sensor networks EH-WSNs where both the power budgets available at the EH sensors and hence their transmission capabilities are random. This characteristic, if not taken into account when designing the localization algorithm, may severely hinder its accuracy. Assuming a random transmission capability at each EH sensor, we develop a new approach to derive the expected hop progress (EHP). Exploiting the latter, we propose a localization algorithm that is able to accurately locate the EH sensors owing to a new implementation requiring no additional power consumption. Furthermore, we develop a correction mechanism which complies with the heterogeneous coverage nature of EH sensors to further improve localization accuracy without incurring any additional power cost. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm, whether applied with or without correction, outperforms in accuracy the most representative WSN localization algorithms in EH powering contexts.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"917 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123044186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Qin Zhou, Z. Zou, Qiang Chen, H. Tenhunen, Lirong Zheng
{"title":"Low Complexity Burst Packet Detection for Wireless-Powered UWB RFID Systems","authors":"Qin Zhou, Z. Zou, Qiang Chen, H. Tenhunen, Lirong Zheng","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324469","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses the issue of UWB signal acquisition in the context of wireless powered UWB RFID systems. In this scenario, the data transmission is based on short packet so as to meet the micro-power budget of autonomous power harvesting. The burst short packet transmission as well as the low duty cycling UWB pulse modulation places a stringent challenge at the UWB receiver for timing acquisition and packet detection. Besides, in a positioning enabled RFID system where variable signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) due to the variable link distance and noise background is unavoidable, conventional packet detection schemes rely on predefined threshold can hardly achieve good performance. In this study, we propose a low complexity method for burst packet detection. It is performed by sensing the preamble signal characteristic instead of the received signal strength, and thus bypassing the necessity of detection threshold. The validity of the proposed approach and its adaptivity to SNR variations is demonstrated by simulation results as well as field test with a UWB software defined radio (SDR) platform.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"43 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115756264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Novel Approach for Material Characterization Based on a Retroreflector Wide Band Transceiver Radar","authors":"B. Friederich, T. Schultze, I. Willms","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324408","url":null,"abstract":"The non-destructive material characterization is not only an interesting field for the academic research but also of importance for different applications, e.g. security applications. In this paper a novel measurement set up for low-cost 60GHZ wideband FMCW-radar is introduced. This set-up replaces the bi-static antenna configuration that is needed for reflection based permittivity estimation. This technique is an advancement of the established Microwave Ellipsometry. The developed measurement technique and setup is called microwave retroreflector ellipsometry (MRE). The experimental validation is carried out with comparison with the well established delay time measurments (DTM) technique. Hence, different dieletric surfaces are examined. Finally the advantages of the MRE compared to the DTM are discussed.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124780957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Efficiency of DC Combination of Rectified Waveforms in Energy Harvesting Systems","authors":"M. Foruhandeh, S. Aïssa","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324440","url":null,"abstract":"Rectifier efficiency is one of the dominant factors of the overall efficiency of an energy harvesting system. The nonlinear nature of the rectifying process hinders the development of optimized circuits for maximum efficiency. This has provided the incentive for researchers to use a different approach for increasing the efficiency of the rectennas. The approach consists of interconnection of multiple rectified signals at the direct current (DC) level through serial, parallel or cascaded connections in multiple antenna receivers. Successful experiments have already been conducted and shown the superiority of the cascaded combination in terms of both efficiency and output voltage at the receiver side, when there are only two rectennas to be combined. In this paper, we aim to formulate and recast this design problem in analytical form for the general case when there are K rectennas in the energy harvesting system. The superiority of the cascaded technique is validated through analysis and comparison of the three combination techniques in terms of efficiency, produced DC voltage and output DC current.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"221 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116384134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impact of Imperfect Channel Estimation Error and Jamming on the Performance of Decode-and-Forward Relaying","authors":"K. Eshteiwi, Georges Kaddoum, F. Gagnon","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324460","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324460","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we analyze the bit error rate (BER) and the throughput of decode-and-forward (DF) relaying with imperfect channel estimation and in the presence of a jammer in the network. We consider a single DF relay scenario with orthogonal cooperative protocols and an active jammer during all the transmission phases attacking the relay and destination nodes in the network. In our analysis, we assume that the complex fading channel coefficients are estimated at the relay and destination levels with errors. We derive the error performance and the throughput of the network then we quantify the impact of channel estimation and the jamming power through the derivation of analytical performance expressions. Our simulation results confirm the accuracy of our analytical BER expression and quantify the performance degradation due to channel estimation and jamming signals. Also, simulation results show the performance of the throughput of the proposed system.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114606165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Strong LOS MIMO for Short Range mmWave Communication - Towards 1 Tbps Wireless Data Bus","authors":"Xiaohang Song, L. Landau, J. Israel, G. Fettweis","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324516","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a wireless data bus system design which relies on a strong Line-of- Sight MIMO approach. An analog MIMO equalizer, which equalizes the deterministic MIMO channel is involved. Instead of interference suppression, the analog MIMO equalizer aligns the phases of the received signals and enhances the desired signal while it suppresses the undesired ones simultaneously. Although the magnitudes of different signal components of the received signals are preferred to be unique, further studies are applied in our work to investigate the validation of our system design with non-unique magnitudes by using practical on-board antennas. It is shown that the proposed system works well with non-unique magnitudes where undesired remaining interference occurs with limited power in comparison with the desired ones. Furthermore, the proposed design shows a great potential for putting a 1 Tbps wireless data bus into practical systems with moderate transmit power and fairly simple modulation schemes which provide high energy efficiency.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"27 18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128718921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Taris, H. Kraimia, A. H. M. Shirazi, S. Mirabbasi
{"title":"Low-Power Design Techniques for Rx RF Front-End","authors":"T. Taris, H. Kraimia, A. H. M. Shirazi, S. Mirabbasi","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324470","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the design and implementation of low- power CMOS radio-frequency (RF) receiver (Rx) building blocks that operate at 2.4 GHz. The design approach exploits the biasing of MOS devices in their moderate inversion region to optimize the trade-off between the performance and the power consumption. A cascade of a low-noise amplifier (LNA) and a mixer achieves a voltage gain of 31.4 dB, and a noise figure (NF) of 6.8 dB while consuming 360 μW. A 101 μW voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) is also demonstrated. Several low-power architectures, including a combination of an LNA with a VCO, are also presented. A proof-of-concept prototype for the combined LNA-VCO is implemented in a 0.13-μm CMOS process. The circuit consumes 240 μW from a 0.8 V supply, and achieves a gain of 18.3 dB, an NF of 3.2 dB and a phase noise of -115.4 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132052956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Very Wide Range Frequency Synthesizer Architecture for Avionic SDR Applications","authors":"Z. A. A. Ismaili, W. Ajib, F. Gagnon, F. Nabki","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324527","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a very wide range frequency synthesizer architecture appropriate to avionic software defined radio (SDR) applications. The synthesizer generates a continuous carrier frequencies range between 187 MHz and 12.2 GHz that covers most of avionic communication applications. The covered range is distributed into twenty sub- bands by using a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO). The considered VCO is able to achieve a tuning range from 10 GHz to 12 GHz (18.2%) and from 7 GHz to 8.5 GHz (19.35%). It includes a capacitor bank, varactors, and switched inductors and is designed in 0.13 μm CMOS technology. Using the advanced design system (ADS) simulation tool and SpectreRF simulator, the proposed VCO exhibits a phase noise of -125 dBc/Hz at 12 GHz and at a 10 MHz offset frequency with a power consumption of 4.1 mW. At 10 GHz, the simulated synthesizer phase noise is of -102 dBc/Hz at a 1 MHz frequency offset. In addition, the loop bandwidth of the phase locked loop (PLL) is 1.1 MHz whereas the settling time is 3.64 μs.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132222486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"HetNet Cloud: Leveraging SDN & Cloud Computing for Wireless Access Virtualization","authors":"Mohammad Moshiur Rahman, C. Despins, S. Affes","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324454","url":null,"abstract":"Cellular network traffic is growing at an exponential rate and it is predicted that the novel services of future 5G networks will demand even more data rate with varying quality of service (QoS). In this context, network operators and vendors are opting for network virtualization that will facilitate novel service provisioning while ensuring efficient resource utilization. We present a software defined networking (SDN) based cloud architecture, named HetNet Cloud, for implementing virtual heterogeneous wireless networks. We propose to utilize the spare bits of the OpenFlow packet model to facilitate implementation of virtual networks.To showcase the effectiveness of HetNet cloud model in managing virtual wireless networks, interference management and traffic offloading between two virtual heterogeneous wireless networks have been demonstrated.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130232522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer in Multi-User Interference SISO System","authors":"Lihua Li, Huizhong Wang, Zhi Wang, A. Paulraj","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324510","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324510","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we study simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) in a multi- user interference single-input single-output (SISO) system. We first solve the ergodic rate optimization problem theoretically and derive the PS scheme and the TS scheme to obtain the optimal strategy of getting maximum ergodic capacity while harvesting sufficient energy to ensure receiver circuit working. The \"rate-energy (R-E)\" regions of the proposed schemes are derived. Then we compare the R- E regions of multi-user interference system with that of a noninterference channel. Finally we analyze R-E regions of multi-user interference SISO system with different interference intensities to show the influence of the interference, which is useful for user deployment and management.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134185804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}