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Generation-Agnostic Zero-Energy Devices for Sustainable Connectivity, Sensing, and Localization
Navid Amani, Filiberto Bilotti, Davide Dardari +7
The massive scale of Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity expected in 6G networks raises unprecedented challenges in energy use, battery waste, and lifecycle sustainability. Curre…
Neyman Pearson Detector for Multiple Ambient Backscatter Zero-Energy-Devices Beacons using Near-Perfect Code
Shanglin Yang, Jean-Marie Gorce, Muhammad Jehangir Khan +2
Recently, a novel ultra-low-power indoor localization system based on Zero-Energy Devices (ZEDs) has shown promising results in ambient backscatter communication. In this paper, we…
Neyman-Pearson Detector for Ambient Backscatter Zero-Energy-Devices Beacons
Shanglin Yang, Jean-Marie Gorce, Muhammad Jehangir Khan +2
Recently, a novel ultra-low power indoor wireless positioning system has been proposed. In this system, Zero-Energy-Devices (ZED) beacons are deployed in Indoor environments, and l…
Ambient Backscatter Communication in LTE Uplink Sounding Reference Signal
Jingyi Liao, Tianshu Zhang, Kalle Ruttik +2
Ambient Internet of Things (AIoT), recently standardized by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), demands a low-power wide-area communication solution that operates severa…
First Real-Time Detection of Ambient Backscatters using Uplink Sounding Reference Signals of a Commercial 4G Smartphone
Ahmed ElSanhoury, Islam Galal, Khaled AlKady +3
Recently, cellular Ambient Backscattering has been proposed for cellular networks. Up to now an Ambient backscatter device, called zero-energy device or tag, broadcasted its messag…
Indoor Localization of Smartphones Thanks to Zero-Energy-Devices Beacons
Shanglin Yang, Yohann Benedic, Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy +2
In this paper, we present a new ultra-low power method of indoor localization of smartphones (SM) based on zero-energy-devices (ZEDs) beacons instead of active wireless beacons. Ea…
Zero-energy Devices for 6G: Technical Enablers at a Glance
Onel López, Ritesh Kumar Singh, Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy +13
Low-cost, resource-constrained, maintenance-free, and energy-harvesting (EH) Internet of Things (IoT) devices, referred to as zero-energy devices (ZEDs), are rapidly attracting att…
Zero-Energy-Device for 6G: First Real-Time Backscatter Communication thanks to the Detection of Pilots from an Ambient Commercial Cellular Network
Papis Ndiaye, Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy, Ayman Hassan +4
Ambient backscatter communication technology (AmBC) and a novel device category called zero-energy devices (ZED) have recently emerged as potential components for the forthcoming 6…
Experimental Demonstration of 3D Reflected Beamforming at sub6GHz thanks to Varactor Based Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface
Philippe Ratajczak, Eric Séguenot, Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising solution to boost coverage sustainably by reflecting waves from a transmitter to a receiver and acting as a low-power and pa…
RIS-Enabled Smart Wireless Environments: Deployment Scenarios, Network Architecture, Bandwidth and Area of Influence
George C. Alexandropoulos, Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy, Kostantinos D. Katsanos +19
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) constitute the key enabler for programmable electromagnetic propagation environments, and are lately being considered as a candidate phys…
Electromagnetic Field Exposure Avoidance thanks to Non-Intended User Equipment and RIS
Hao Guo, Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy, Tommy Svensson
On the one hand, there is a growing demand for high throughput which can be satisfied thanks to the deployment of new networks using massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) a…
Dual Gradient Descent EMF-Aware MU-MIMO Beamforming in RIS-Aided 6G Networks
Yi Yu, Rita Ibrahim, Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) is one of the key technologies for the upcoming 6th Generation (6G) communications, which can improve the signal strength at the receivers…
EMF-Aware MU-MIMO Beamforming in RIS-Aided Cellular Networks
Yi Yu, Rita Ibrahim, Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) are one of the key emerging 6th Generation (6G) technologies that are expected to improve the link budgets between transmitters and recei…
A Novel RIS-Aided EMF-Aware Beamforming Using Directional Spreading, Truncation and Boosting
Nour Awarkeh, Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy, Raphael Visoz +1
This paper addresses a drawback of massive multiple-input multiple-output Maximum Ratio Transmission beamforming. In some propagation conditions, when the base station serves the s…
Creating and Operating Areas With Reduced Electromagnetic Field Exposure Thanks to Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy, Yohann Bénédic, Sebastien Herraiz Gonzalez +1
Mobile network operators must provide a target quality of service within a target coverage area. Each generation of networks from the 2nd to the 5th has reached higher quality-of-s…
A Novel RIS-Aided EMF Exposure Aware Approach using an Angularly Equalized Virtual Propagation Channel
Nour Awarkeh, Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy, Marco Di Renzo
Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output systems with beamforming are key components of the 5th and the future 6th generation of networks. However, in some cases, where the BS serves…
Smart Wireless Environments Enabled by RISs: Deployment Scenarios and Two Key Challenges
George C. Alexandropoulos, Maurizio Crozzoli, Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy +9
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) constitute the enabler for programmable propagation of electromagnetic signals, and are lately being considered as a candidate physical-l…
RIS-Aware Indoor Network Planning: The Rennes Railway Station Case
Antonio Albanese, Guillermo Encinas-Lago, Vincenzo Sciancalepore +3
Future generations of wireless networks will offer newfangled performance via unprecedented solutions: the metasurface innovation will drive such a revolution by posing control ont…
First experimental evaluation of ambient backscatter communications with massive MIMO reader
Romain Fara, Nada Bel-Haj-Maati, Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy +2
Ambient backscatter communications have been introduced as low-power communications for green networking. This technology is very promising as it recycles ambient radio frequency w…
Robust Ambient Backscatter Communications with Polarization Reconfigurable Tags
Romain Fara, Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy, Abdelwaheb Ourir +2
Ambient backscatter communication system is an emerging and promising low-energy technology for Internet of Things. In such system, a device named tag, sends a binary message to a…
Reconfigurable, Intelligent, and SustainableWireless Environments for 6G Smart Connectivity
Emilio Calvanese Strinati, George C. Alexandropoulos, Henk Wymeersch +7
Various visions on the forthcoming sixth Generation (6G) networks point towards flexible connect-and-compute technologies to support future innovative services and the correspondin…
Ambient Backscatter Communications in Mobile Networks: Crowd-Detectable Zero-Energy-Devices
D. -T. Phan-Huy, D. Barthel, P. Ratajczak +3
In this paper, we introduce the new concept of Crowd-Detectable Zero-Energy-Devices. Such devices harvest solar or ambient light energy to power themselves, backscatter ambient wav…
Backscatter Communication System With Dumb Diffusing Surface
Jean-Marc Kelif, Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy
Ambient backscatter communications have been identified for ultra-low energy wireless communications. Indeed, a tag can send a message to a reader without emitting any wave and wit…
A Prototype of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface with Continuous Control of the Reflection Phase
Romain Fara, Philippe Ratajczak, Dinh-Thuy Phan Huy +3
With the development of the next generation of mobile networks, new research challenges have emerged, and new technologies have been proposed to face them. On the one hand, the rec…