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Carrier-sense multiple access

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Over-the-Air Computation via Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface

Wei Chen, Yuning Jiang

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) is a disruptive technique for fast wireless data aggregation in Internet of Things (IoT) networks via exploiting the waveform superposition property of multiple-access channels. However, the performance of AirComp is bott ...

2021

On the Implementation Complexity of Digital Full-Duplex Self-Interference Cancellation

Andreas Peter Burg, Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Andreas Toftegaard Kristensen

In-band full-duplex systems promise to further increase the throughput of wireless systems, by simultaneously transmitting and receiving on the same frequency band. However, concurrent transmission generates a strong self-interference signal at the receive ...

IEEE2020

A CMOS SPAD Imager with Collision Detection and 128 Dynamically Reallocating TDCs for Single-Photon Counting and 3D Time-of-Flight Imaging

Edoardo Charbon, Ivan Michel Antolovic, Chunmin Zhang, Scott Anthony Lindner

Per-pixel time-to-digital converter (TDC) architectures have been exploited by single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) sensors to achieve high photon throughput, but at the expense of fill factor, pixel pitch and readout efficiency. In contrast, TDC sharing a ...

2018

How CSMA/CA With Deferral Affects Performance and Dynamics in Power-Line Communications

Patrick Thiran, Julien Pierre Sacha Herzen, Christina Vlachou

Power-line communications (PLC) are becoming a key component in home networking, because they provide easy and high-throughput connectivity. The dominant MAC protocol for high data-rate PLC, the IEEE 1901, employs a CSMA/CA mechanism similar to the backoff ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

Csma/ca in time and frequency domains

Patrick Thiran, Julien Pierre Sacha Herzen

The present invention concerns a method for a communication device to transmit a data packet in a wireless communication system. The method comprises: determining (21) a first set of transmission parameters comprising a first central transmission frequency ...

2017

On the Duality between Multiple-Access Codes and Computation Codes

Michael Christoph Gastpar, Sung Hoon Lim, Jingge Zhu

For a two-user Gaussian multiple access channel, computation codes are designed for the scenarios where the decoder is not interested in decoding the two codewords, but only the sum of them. It has been observed that good computation codes should possess s ...

2017

Analysis and Enhancement of CSMA/CA With Deferral in Power-Line Communications

Patrick Thiran, Julien Pierre Sacha Herzen, Christina Vlachou

Power-line communications are employed in home networking to provide easy and high-throughput connectivity. The IEEE 1901, the MAC protocol for power-line networks, employs a CSMA/CA protocol similar to that of 802.11, but is substantially more complex, wh ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

CSMA/CA in Time and Frequency Domains

Patrick Thiran, Julien Pierre Sacha Herzen

It has recently been shown that flexible channelization, whereby wireless stations adapt their spectrum bands on a per-frame basis, is feasible in practice. In this paper, we propose TF-CSMA/CA, an algorithm for flexible channelization that schedules packe ...

IEEE2015

Random Access With Physical-Layer Network Coding

Michael Christoph Gastpar, Jasper Goseling

We consider a physical-layer network coding strategy for the random-access channel, based on compute-and-forward. When packets collide, it is possible to reliably recover a linear combination of the packets at the receiver. Over many rounds of transmission ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

Cross Layer Energy-Efficiency Optimization For Cognitive Radio Transceivers

Andreas Peter Burg, Carl Christian Sten Dominic Senning

Designing energy-efficient cognitive radio transceivers requires joint optimization of medium access control and the physical layer implementation. In this paper we show an energy efficiency optimization strategy for IEEE 802.11n compliant transceivers in ...

IEEE2014

On the MAC for Power-Line Communications: Modeling Assumptions and Performance Tradeoffs

Patrick Thiran, Julien Pierre Sacha Herzen, Christina Vlachou

Power-line communications are becoming a key component in home networking. The dominant MAC protocol for high data-rate power-line communications, IEEE 1901, employs a CSMA/CA mechanism similar to the backoff process of 802.11. Existing performance evaluat ...

2014

Towards compact and frequency-tunable antenna solutions for MIMO transmission with a single RF chain

Julien Perruisseau-Carrier, Mohsen Yousefbeiki

Recently, a technique called beam-space MIMO has been demonstrated as an effective approach for transmitting multiple signals while using a single RF-chain. In this work, we present novel design considerations and a compact antenna solution to stimulate th ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

Energy Efficient VLSI Circuits for MIMO-WLAN

Carl Christian Sten Dominic Senning

Mobile communication - anytime, anywhere access to data and communication services - has been continuously increasing since the operation of the first wireless communication link by Guglielmo Marconi. The demand for higher data rates, despite the limited b ...

EPFL2014

Gaussian (dirty) multiple access channels: a compute-and-forward perspective

Michael Christoph Gastpar, Jingge Zhu

Lattice codes are applied to the two-user Gaussian multiple access channel (MAC) combined with a modified compute-and-forward transmitting scheme. It is shown that non-corner points on the boundary of the capacity region can be achieved by decoding two int ...

IEEE2014

Pattern-reconfigurable built-in antenna for data multiplexing with a single radio

Julien Perruisseau-Carrier, Mohsen Yousefbeiki

Beam-space multiplexing has been demonstrated as a promising approach for transmitting multiple signals while using a single RF chain. This paper presents a novel beam-space antenna design that is very compact and integrated into a hypothetical portable pl ...

IEEE2013

Physical-layer Network Coding on the Random-access Channel

Michael Christoph Gastpar, Jasper Goseling

We consider a physical-layer network coding strat- egy for the random-access channel, based on compute-and- forward. When packets collide, it is possible to reliably recover a linear combination of the packets at the receiver. Over many rounds of transmiss ...

2013

Network Coding : Theoretical Designs Directed to Applications

Mahdi Jafari Siavoshani

The demand for higher throughput and better efficiency are two important challenges for future communication networks. During the past decades, a lot of research studies have been devoted to investigating and proposing near optimal and efficient schemes an ...

EPFL2012

Bringing Stability to Wireless Mesh Networks

Adel Aziz

Wireless mesh networks were designed as a mean to rapidly deliver large-scale communication capabilities without the support of any prior infrastructure. Among the different properties of mesh networks, the self-organizing feature is particularly interesti ...

EPFL2011

Neighbor discovery with reception status feedback to transmitters

Ramin Khalili

Neighbor discovery is essential for the process of self-organization of a wireless network, where almost all routing and medium access protocols need knowledge of one-hop neighbors. In this paper we study the problem of neighbor discovery in a static and s ...

Ieee Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, Po Box 1331, Piscataway, Nj 08855-1331 Usa2010

Throughput-Delay Tradeoff for Hierarchical Cooperation in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks

Olivier Lévêque, Ayfer Özgür Aydin

Hierarchical cooperation has recently been shown to achieve better throughput scaling than classical multihop schemes under certain assumptions on the channel model in static wireless networks. However, the end-to-end delay of this scheme turns out to be s ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2010