URI | http://purl.tuc.gr/dl/dias/0B531724-CD9E-4118-84E7-614C88BD9A85 | - |
Identifier | https://doi.org/10.26233/heallink.tuc.70371 | - |
Language | en | - |
Extent | 157 pages | en |
Title | Intelligent scatter radio, RF harvesting analysis, and resource allocation for ultra-low-power Internet-of-Things | el |
Creator | Alevizos Panagiotis | en |
Creator | Αλεβιζος Παναγιωτης | el |
Contributor [Thesis Supervisor] | Bletsas Aggelos | en |
Contributor [Thesis Supervisor] | Μπλετσας Αγγελος | el |
Contributor [Committee Member] | Karystinos Georgios | en |
Contributor [Committee Member] | Καρυστινος Γεωργιος | el |
Contributor [Committee Member] | Deligiannakis Antonios | en |
Contributor [Committee Member] | Δεληγιαννακης Αντωνιος | el |
Contributor [Committee Member] | Lagoudakis Michael | en |
Contributor [Committee Member] | Λαγουδακης Μιχαηλ | el |
Contributor [Committee Member] | Paterakis Michalis | en |
Contributor [Committee Member] | Πατερακης Μιχαλης | el |
Contributor [Committee Member] | Liavas Athanasios | en |
Contributor [Committee Member] | Λιαβας Αθανασιος | el |
Contributor [Committee Member] | Sidiropoulos Nikos | en |
Contributor [Committee Member] | Σιδηροπουλος Νικος | el |
Publisher | Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης | el |
Publisher | Technical University of Crete | en |
Academic Unit | Technical University of Crete::School of Electrical and Computer Engineering | en |
Academic Unit | Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης::Σχολή Ηλεκτρολόγων Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών | el |
Content Summary | Ubiquitous sensing anywhere and anytime is envisioned under the general umbrella of
Internet-of-Things (IoT). The objective of this dissertation is to contribute ultra-low-power
IoT technology, exploiting novel concepts in wireless communications and networking.
The first part of this work studies far field radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting,
taking into account non-linearity, sensitivity, and saturation effects of existing rectenna circuits.
The proposed methodology offers the statistics of the harvested power for any given rectenna model,
under mild assumptions. It is also demonstrated that currently-used linear RF harvesting models in the literature deviate from reality.
In the second part, scatter radio technology, i.e., communication via means of reflection, is studied in order to enable ultra-low-power
radio communication with single-transistor front-ends. The thesis proposes low-complexity detection schemes
as well as decoding techniques for short block-length channel codes,
tailored to coherent, as well as noncoherent reception of scatter radio. The goal was to target resource-constrained, i.e., hardware-``thin'',
scatter radio tags and simple, low-latency receivers. The developed detection and decoding algorithms are based on
composite hypothesis testing framework. Interestingly, it is demonstrated that the bit error rate (BER)
performance gap between coherent and noncoherent reception depends on the kind of
channel codes employed, the fading conditions, as well as the utilized coding interleaving depth.
The third part of this work proposes a multistatic scatter radio network architecture, based on orthogonal signaling, contrasted to existing
architectures for dyadic Nakagami fading. Orthogonal signaling allows for collision free multi-user access for low-bitrate tags.
It is shown that the proposed scatter radio architecture offers better diversity order, more reliable reception, as well as better
field coverage, while demonstrating smaller sensitivity to the topology of the scatter radio tags, compared to existing monostatic architecture.
Finally, the last part of the dissertation studies resource allocation in multi-cell backscatter sensor networks (BSNs). The average long-term
signal-to interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) of linear detectors is explored for multi-cell BSNs, and subsequently harnessed to
allocate frequency sub-channels at tags. The proposed resource allocation algorithm is based on the Max-Sum inference algorithm and its convergence-complexity trade-off
is quantified.
Experimental studies in an outdoor scatter radio testbed corroborate the theoretical findings of this work.
Hopefully, this thesis will establish the viability of scatter radio for ultra-low-power communications, enabling critical current and future IoT
applications. | en |
Type of Item | Διδακτορική Διατριβή | el |
Type of Item | Doctoral Dissertation | en |
License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en |
Date of Item | 2017-12-04 | - |
Date of Publication | 2017 | - |
Subject | Wireless communications | en |
Subject | Backscatter radios | en |
Subject | Wireless sensor networks | en |
Subject | Detection and estimation | en |
Subject | Bistatic architecture | en |
Subject | Frequency-shift keying | en |
Subject | Resource allocation | en |
Bibliographic Citation | Panagiotis Alevizos, "Intelligent scatter radio, RF harvesting analysis, and resource allocation for ultra-low-power Internet-of-Things", Doctoral Dissertation, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 2017 | en |