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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface -Assisted Ambient Backscatter Communications -- Experimental Assessment
Romain Fara, Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy, Philippe Ratajczak +3
Sixth generation (6G) mobile networks may include new passive technologies, such as ambient backscatter communication or the use of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, to avoid th…
Ambient backscatters-friendly 5G networks: creating hot spots for tags and good spots for readers
Romain Fara, Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy, Marco Di Renzo
In this paper, we present an ambient backscatters-friendly 5G network that creates locations with large power (hot spots) for tags and good reception locations (quiet spots or cohe…
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces vs. Relaying: Differences, Similarities, and Performance Comparison
M. Di Renzo, K. Ntontin, J. Song +12
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have the potential of realizing the emerging concept of smart radio environments by leveraging the unique properties of meta-surfaces. In…