A Little Certainty is All We Need: Discovery and Synchronization Acceleration in Battery-Free IoT
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Abstract
The vision of sustainable IoT constructed from battery-free devices has attracted ample interest in the research community. Yet, efficient device discovery and synchronization—a fundamental problem in IoT systems—remains a critical challenge mainly due to the uncertain ambient energy availability across battery-free devices. We argue that bringing in a small level of certainty is necessary for facilitating communication in battery-free IoT. We propose Pulsar where we introduce a small number of battery-powered devices, serving as the communication coordinator for a large number of battery-free devices. We develop two communication schemes, namely one-to-one, and all-to-all, for Pulsar. Our results based on simulations and prototype-based experiments show that Pulsar achieves consistently good performance across different scenarios while requiring no special hardware or environmental conditions.
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DOI:10.1145/3663408
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