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eess.SP2026

Experimental Evaluation of Geometry and Reciprocity-Based Beamforming with Large Arrays for RF Wireless Power Transfer

Gilles Callebaut, Jarne Van Mulders

This paper experimentally investigates geometry-based multi-antenna RF wireless power transfer (WPT) using a large-scale distributed indoor transmit array measuring 8 m by 4 m. Geo…

eess.SP2026

Experimental Study of Interference Suppression for Backscatter Communication in Distributed MIMO

Ahmet Kaplan, Gilles Callebaut, Jarne Van Mulders +1

Bistatic backscatter communication requires strong illumination of a backscatter device (BD), while a spatially separated reader detects the weak modulated reflection. In practice,…

eess.SP2025

GNN-based Precoder Design and Fine-tuning for Cell-free Massive MIMO with Real-world CSI

Tianzheng Miao, Thomas Feys, Gilles Callebaut +4

Cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) has emerged as a promising paradigm for delivering uniformly high-quality coverage in future wireless networks. To address the inherent challenges…

eess.SY2025

Designing RF-Powered Battery-Less Electronic Shelf Labels With COTS Components

Jarne Van Mulders, Gilles Callebaut

This paper presents a preliminary study exploring the feasibility of designing batteryless electronic shelf labels (ESLs) powered by radio frequency wireless power transfer using c…

eess.SY2024

Single versus Multi-Tone Wireless Power Transfer with Physically Large Array

Jarne Van Mulders, Benjamin J. B. Deutschmann, Geoffrey Ottoy +4

Distributed beamforming is a key enabler to provide power wirelessly to a massive amount of energy-neutral devices (ENDs). However, without prior information and fully depleted END…

eess.SP2024

How to Perform Distributed Precoding to Wirelessly Power Shelf Labels: Signal Processing and Measurements

Gilles Callebaut, Jarne Van Mulders, Bert Cox +3

Wireless power transfer (WPT) has garnered increasing attention due to its potential to eliminate device-side batteries. With the advent of (distributed) multiple-input multiple-ou…

cs.CY2022

IoT with a Soft Touch: A Modular Remote Sensing Platform for STE(A)M Applications

Jona Cappelle, Geoffrey Ottoy, Sarah Goossens +4

Besides wide attraction in the industry, IoT is being used to advance STEM and STEAM education across a range of education levels. This work presents a remote sensing platform, nam…

eess.SP2022★ 21 cited

Techtile -- Open 6G R&D Testbed for Communication, Positioning, Sensing, WPT and Federated Learning

Gilles Callebaut, Jarne Van Mulders, Geoffrey Ottoy +4

New concepts for next-generation wireless systems are being developed. It is expected that these 6G and beyond systems will incorporate more than only communication, but also sensi…

cs.NI2022

Aerial Energy Provisioning for Massive Energy-Constrained IoT by UAVs

Jarne Van Mulders, Guus Leenders, Gilles Callebaut +2

Autonomy of devices is a major challenge in many Internet of Things (IoT) applications, in particular when the nodes are deployed remotely or difficult to assess places. In this pa…

eess.SP2021

A Primer on Techtile: An R&D Testbed for Distributed Communication, Sensing and Positioning

Gilles Callebaut, Jarne Van Mulders, Geoffrey Ottoy +1

The Techtile measurement infrastructure is a multi-functional, versatile testbed for new communication and sensing technologies relying on fine-grained distributed resources. The f…