Title
Energy-Autonomous Wireless Communication for Millimeter-Scale Internet-of-Things Sensor Nodes.
Abstract
This paper presents an energy-autonomous wireless communication system for ultra-small Internet-of-Things (IoT) platforms. In the proposed system, all necessary components, including the battery, energy-harvesting solar cells, and the RF antenna, are fully integrated within a millimeter-scale form factor. Designing an energy-optimized wireless communication system for such a miniaturized platform is challenging because of unique system constraints imposed by the ultra-small system dimension. The proposed system targets orders of magnitude improvement in wireless communication energy efficiency through a comprehensive system-level analysis that jointly optimizes various system parameters, such as node dimension, modulation scheme, synchronization protocol, RF/analog/digital circuit specifications, carrier frequency, and a miniaturized 3-D antenna. We propose a new protocol and modulation schemes that are specifically designed for energy-scarce ultra-small IoT nodes. These new schemes exploit abundant signal processing resources on gateway devices to simplify design for energy-scarce ultra-small sensor nodes. The proposed dynamic link adaptation guarantees that the ultra-small IoT node always operates in the most energy efficient mode for a given operating scenario. The outcome is a truly energy-optimized wireless communication system to enable various classes of new applications, such as implanted smart-dust devices.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/JSAC.2016.2612041
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Wireless communication,Dipole antennas,Internet of things,Batteries,Three-dimensional displays,Modulation,Capacitors,Green communications,Energy efficiency
Fixed wireless,Link adaptation,Key distribution in wireless sensor networks,Synchronization,Wireless,Efficient energy use,Computer science,Computer network,Default gateway,Wi-Fi array
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
34
12
0733-8716
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.38
0
Authors
11
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yajing Chen1262.14
Nikolaos Chiotellis2142.29
Li-Xuan Chuo3102.42
Carl Pfeiffer4192.23
Yao Shi5234.92
Ronald G. Dreslinski6125881.02
Anthony Grbic7304.95
Trevor Mudge86139659.74
David D. Wentzloff938345.80
David Blaauw108916823.47
Hun-Seok Kim1129427.15