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Open Gimbal: A 3 Degrees of Freedom Open Source Sensing and Testing Platform for Nano and Micro UAVs
Suryansh Sharma, Tristan Dijkstra, R. Venkatesha Prasad
Testing the aerodynamics of micro- and nano-UAVs without actually flying is highly challenging. To address this issue, we introduce Open Gimbal, a specially designed 3 Degrees of F…
Distributed Sensing, Computing, Communication, and Control Fabric: A Unified Service-Level Architecture for 6G
Dejan Vukobratović, Nikolaos Bartzoudis, Mona Ghassemian +8
With the advent of the multimodal immersive communication system, people can interact with each other using multiple devices for sensing, communication and/or control either onsite…
Covy: An AI-powered Robot with a Compound Vision System for Detecting Breaches in Social Distancing
Serge Saaybi, Amjad Yousef Majid, R Venkatesha Prasad +2
This paper introduces a compound vision system that enables robots to localize people up to 15m away using a cheap camera. And, it proposes a robust navigation stack that combines…
Spin-down induced quark-hadron phase transition in cold isolated neutron stars
R. Prasad, Ritam Mallick
We have studied the spin-down induced phase transition in cold, isolated neutron stars in this work. After birth, as the star slows down, its central density rises and crosses the…
Towards Enabling High-Five Over WiFi
Vineet Gokhale, Mohamad Eid, Kees Kroep +2
The next frontier for immersive applications is enabling sentience over the Internet. Tactile Internet (TI) envisages transporting skills by providing Ultra-Low Latency (ULL) commu…
Deep Reinforcement Learning Versus Evolution Strategies: A Comparative Survey
Amjad Yousef Majid, Serge Saaybi, Tomas van Rietbergen +3
Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) and Evolution Strategies (ESs) have surpassed human-level control in many sequential decision-making problems, yet many open challenges still exis…
Energy Efficient Data Recovery from Corrupted LoRa Frames
Niloofar Yazdani, Nikolaos Kouvelas, R Venkatesha Prasad +1
High frame-corruption is widely observed in Long Range Wide Area Networks (LoRaWAN) due to the coexistence with other networks in ISM bands and an Aloha-like MAC layer. LoRa's Forw…
ETVO: Effectively Measuring Tactile Internet with Experimental Validation
H. J. C. Kroep, V. Gokhale, J. Verburg +1
The next frontier in communications is teleoperation -- manipulation and control of remote environments with feedback. Compared to conventional networked applications, teleoperatio…
FEEL: Fast, Energy-Efficient Localization for Autonomous Indoor Vehicles
Vineet Gokhale, Gerardo Moyers Barrera, R. Venkatesha Prasad
Autonomous vehicles have created a sensation in both outdoor and indoor applications. The famous indoor use-case is process automation inside a warehouse using Autonomous Indoor Ve…
A simple Stochastic SIR model for COVID 19 Infection Dynamics for Karnataka: Learning from Europe
Ashutosh Simha, R. Venkatesha Prasad, Sujay Narayana
In this short note we model the region-wise trends of the evolution to COVID-19 infections using a stochastic SIR model. The SIR dynamics are expressed using \textit{Itô-stochastic…
Setting the Yardstick: A Quantitative Metric for Effectively Measuring Tactile Internet
J. P. Verburg, H. J. C. Kroep, V. Gokhale +2
The next frontier in communications is teleoperation -- manipulation and control of remote environments. Compared to conventional networked applications, teleoperation poses widely…
Reinforcing Edge Computing with Multipath TCP Enabled Mobile Device Clouds
Venkatraman Balasubramanian, Kees Kroep, Kishor Chandra Joshi +1
In recent years, enormous growth has been witnessed in the computational and storage capabilities of mobile devices. However, much of this computational and storage capabilities ar…
Adaptive Beamwidth Selection for Contention Based Access Periods in Millimeter Wave WLANs
Kishor Chandra, R. Venkatesha Prasad, I. G. M. M. Niemegeers +1
60GHz wireless local area networks (WLANs) standards (e.g., IEEE 802.11ad and IEEE 802.15.3c) employ hybrid MAC protocols consisting of contention based access using CSMA/CA as wel…
Performance Analysis of IEEE 802.11ad MAC Protocol
Kishor Chandra, R. Venkatesha Prasad, Ignas Niemegeers
IEEE 802.11ad specifies a hybrid medium access control (MAC) protocol consisting of contention as well as noncontention-based channel access mechanisms. Further, it also employs di…
Association, Blockage and Handoffs in IEEE 802.11ad based 60GHz Picocells- A Closer Look
Kishor Chandra Joshi, Rizqi Hersyandika, R. Venkatesha Prasad
The link misalignment and high susceptibility to blockages are the biggest hurdles in realizing 60GHz based wireless local area networks (WLANs). However, much of the previous stud…
Analyzing the Trade-offs in Using Millimeter Wave Directional Links for High Data Rate Tactile Internet Applications
Kishor Chandra Joshi, Solmaz Niknam, R. Venkatesha Prasad +1
Ultra-low latency and high reliability communications are the two defining characteristics of Tactile Internet (TI). Nevertheless, some TI applications would also require high data…
Employing p-CSMA on a LoRa Network Simulator
Nikos Kouvelas, Vijay Rao, R. R. Venkatesha Prasad
Low-Power Wide-Area Networks (LPWANs) emerged to cover the needs of Internet of Things (IoT)-devices for operational longevity and long operating range. Among LPWANs, Long Range (L…
CogCell: Cognitive Interplay between 60GHz Picocells and 2.4/5GHz Hotspots in the 5G Era
Kishor Chandra, R. Venkatesha Prasad, Bien Quang +1
Rapid proliferation of wireless communication devices and the emergence of a variety of new applications have triggered investigations into next-generation mobile broadband systems…
Sensor Assisted Movement Identification and Prediction for Beamformed 60 GHz Links: A Report
A. W. Doff, Kishor Chandra, R. Venkatesha Prasad
Large available bandwidth in 60\,GHz band promises very high data rates -- in the order of Gb/s. However, high free-space path loss makes it necessary to employ beamforming capable…
60 GHz MAC Standardization: Progress and Way Forward
Kishor Chandra, Arjan Doff, Zizheng Cao +2
Communication at mmWave frequencies has been the focus in the recent years. In this paper, we discuss standardization efforts in 60 GHz short range communication and the progress t…
Topological phase transition and quantum spin Hall state in TlBiS
Bahadur Singh, Hsin Lin, R. Prasad +1
We have investigated the bulk and surface electronic structures and band topology of TlBiS as a function of strain and electric field using \textit{ab-initio} calculations. In…
Zero Energy Network stack for Energy Harvested WSNs
Akshay Uttama Nambi S. N., Prabhakar T., R Venkatesha Prasad +1
We present our ``Zero Energy Network'' (ZEN) protocol stack for energy harvesting wireless sensor networks applications. The novelty in our work is fold: (1) Energy harvesting…
Technical Report: Sleep-Route - Routing through Sleeping Sensors
Chayan Sarkar, Vijay S. Rao, R. Venkatesha Prasad
In this article, we propose an energy-efficient data gathering scheme for wireless sensor network called Sleep-Route, which splits the sensor nodes into two sets - active and dorma…
No-Sense: Sense with Dormant Sensors
Chayan Sarkar, Vijay S. Rao, R. Venkatesha Prasad
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have enabled continuous monitoring of an area of interest (body, room, region, etc.) while eliminating expensive wired infrastructure. Typically in…