7 papers
Towards Sustainable 6G: A Holistic View of Trade-offs and Enablers
Mattia Merluzzi, Olivier Bouchet, Ali Balador +9
The sixth generation of mobile networks (6G) can play a central role in shaping a sustainable future, the most compelling contemporary challenge. Connecting the unconnected, reduci…
The environmental impact of ICT in the era of data and artificial intelligence
François Rottenberg, Thomas Feys, Liesbet Van der Perre
The technology industry promotes artificial intelligence (AI) as a key enabler to solve a vast number of problems, including the environmental crisis. However, when looking at the…
Low-Power Impact Detection and Localization on Forklifts Using Wireless IMU Sensors
Lyssa Ramaut, Chesney Buyle, Jona Cappelle +1
Forklifts are essential for transporting goods in industrial environments. These machines face wear and tear during field operations, along with rough terrain, tight spaces and com…
Weighted-Sum Energy Efficiency Maximization in User-Centric Uplink Cell-Free Massive MIMO
Donghwi Kim, Liesbet Van der Perre, Wan Choi
This paper introduces the weighted-sum energy efficiency (WSEE) as an advanced performance metric designed to represent the uplink energy efficiency (EE) of individual user equipme…
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…
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…
Multi-RAT for IoT: The Potential in Combining LoRaWAN and NB-IoT
Guus Leenders, Gilles Callebaut, Geoffrey Ottoy +2
The broad range of requirements of Internet of Things applications has lead to the development of several dedicated communication technologies, each tailored to meet a specific fea…