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Backing out of backscatter for intermittent wireless networks

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Carlo Delle Donne,

Kasim Sinan Yildirim,

Amjad Yousef Majid,

Josiah Hester,

Przemysław PawełczakAuthors Info & Claims

ENSsys '18: Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Energy Harvesting & Energy-Neutral Sensing Systems

Pages 38 - 40

https://doi.org/10.1145/3279755.3279758

Published: 04 November 2018 Publication History

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Abstract

Backscatter has emerged as the dominant paradigm for battery-free networking among the (potentially) trillions of devices in the future Internet of Things, partly because of the order of magnitude smaller energy consumption, but at the cost of collisions, low data rates, and short distances. This position paper explores the alternative approach: using low power, yet active radios to communicate among the battery-less swarm. We describe the challenges of using active radios in this context, including lack of tight time guarantees, high listening costs, and intermittent operation. While backscatter is promising, this paper hopes to broaden the conversation around alternative methods for networking the future IoT.

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Backing out of backscatter for intermittent wireless networks
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Embedded and cyber-physical systems
    1. Embedded systems
      1. Embedded software
    2. Sensor networks
2. Networks
  1. Network protocols
    1. OAM protocols
      1. Time synchronization protocols

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ENSsys '18: Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Energy Harvesting & Energy-Neutral Sensing Systems

November 2018

47 pages

ISBN:9781450360470

DOI:10.1145/3279755

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Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
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Clemson University

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Tsai WChen WKuo THsiu P(2022)Intermittent-Aware Distributed Concurrency ControlIEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems10.1109/TCAD.2022.319750241:11(3721-3732)Online publication date: Nov-2022
https://doi.org/10.1109/TCAD.2022.3197502
de Winkel JDelle Donne CYildirim KPawełczak PHester JLarus JCeze LStrauss K(2020)Reliable Timekeeping for Intermittent ComputingProceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems10.1145/3373376.3378464(53-67)Online publication date: 9-Mar-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3373376.3378464
Renner CZella M(2019)The Internet of Intermittent Things, a Land of Low-Hanging FruitsProceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Energy Harvesting & Energy-Neutral Sensing Systems10.1145/3362053.3363493(49-51)Online publication date: 10-Nov-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3362053.3363493

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