Sensor Selection and Bit Allocation in WSNs with Realistic Digital Communication Channels

For energy management in wireless sensor networks, only the sensors with most informative measurements are activated to operate. How to select sensors that make good tradeoff between performance and energy consumption is what many researchers are focusing on. Existing solutions assume analog data model, i.e., the data from sensors collected by a...

Sparse Arrays: Vector Sensors and Design Algorithms

Direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation of acoustic sources is of great interest in a number of applications. Acoustic vector sensors (AVSs) provide an edge over traditional scalar sensors since they measure the acoustic velocity field in addition to the acoustic pressure. It is known that a uniform linear array (ULA) of M conventional scalar...

Indoor Granular Presence Sensing and Control Messaging with an Ultrasonic Circular Array Sensor

Providing automated granular control of lighting, along with user-driven control, results in an energy-efficient smart lighting system design while catering to personal occupant preferences. Two functional ingredients in such a system are: (i) sensing that provides granular information on occupant location, and (ii) a communication system to...

A “Transmission Time Reservation” method in a Wireless Lighting Control System

The lighting industry has been comprehensively developed and deployed during recent decades, especially with the rise of LED technology. As a related technique field, lighting control system has also draw more and more attention; therefore intelligent lighting control systems are needed. Nowadays, several famous lighting companies are working on...

Researching the BLE based intelligent lighting control system

Several leading lighting companies for example NXP and Philips work in a project to explore the next generation intelligent lighting system. One innovation of the project is using a distributed architecture to replace current centralized system to increase robustness and extensibility. As a core component of wireless lighting control system,...

Compressive Sensing for Near-field Source Localization

Near-field source localization is an important aspect in many diverse areas such as acoustics, seismology, to list a few. The planar wave assumption frequently used in far-field source localization is no longer valid when the sources are in the near field. Near-field sources can be localized by solving a joint direction-of-arrival and range...

Offline Power Allocation and Spectrum Sensing Strategy in Energy-Harvesting Cognitive Radio Networks

Energy-harvesting cognitive radio network has emerged as a solution to increase energy and spectrum efficiency. In this thesis, we propose short-term offline optimal power allocation algorithms for multi-user energy-harvesting cognitive radio networks considering interference between secondary users. Assuming finite and rechargeable batteries...

Waveform Optimization for Compressive-Sensing Radar Systems

Compressive sensing (CS) provides a new paradigm in data acquisition and signal processing in radar, based on the assumptions of sparsity of an unknown radar scene, and the incoherence of the transmitted signal. The resolution in the conventional pulse-compression radar is foreseen to be improved by the implementation of CS. An unknown sparse...

Underwater ultra-wideband fingerprinting-based localization

In this work a new location fingerprinting-based localization algorithm is proposed for an underwater medium by utilizing ultra-wideband (UWB) signals. In many conventional underwater systems, localization is accomplished by utilizing acoustic waves. On the other hand, electromagnetic waves haven't been employed for underwater localization due...

Multi-Carrier Wakeup Radio Receiver

In the development of wireless sensor networks, power consumption is one of the bottlenecks for wide applications. In order to improve the energy efficiency of wireless sensor networks, a wakeup radio scheme is presented. The main transceiver that is responsible for data communication is in the sleep mode most of the time. An additional device...

Wideband spectrum sensing techniques for wireless sensors

The limited availability of radio frequency spectrum demands for more efficient ways to utilize it in future wireless networks. Spectrum sharing radios are an interesting solution to the spectral scarcity problem, where the available resources are adaptively used across time and frequency without affecting other user's transmissions. In this...

Illumination control of an LED lighting system based on localized occupancy

Light emitting diode (LED) based systems are considered to be the future of lighting. We consider the problem of energy-efficient illumination control of such systems. Energy-efficient system design is based on two aspects: localized information of occupancy and optimization of dimming levels of the LEDs. Specifically, we are interested in...

Multiuser Detection for Sensing Asynchronous LED Illumination Contributions

In recent years, light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have played an increasingly more important role for light illumination. Beyond the basic function of pure illumination via intensity control of xed color light, LED technology additionally allows control over the light color and illumination pattern. In order to realize these functions of intelligent...

Antenna Beamforming for a 60 GHz Transceiver System

The main target of a 60 GHz transceiver system is to obtain data rates close to gigabits per second (Gbps) over short distances. The 60 GHz suffers from severe pathloss, inter-symbol interference (ISI) and a limited link budget. In order to improve the link budget, beamforming techniques are utilized. Antenna beamforming, i.e., combining signals...

A noise subspace approach for localization

Wireless sensor networks are becoming increasingly popular due to their low cost and wide applicability to support a large number of diverse application areas. Localization of sensor nodes is a fundamental requirement that makes the sensor data meaningful. Energy and cost constraints only allow to equip a few nodes with a GPS device and to...

Human movement characterization in indoor environment using GNU radio based radar

Human activity characterization based on gait signatures is important in several applications including medical, elderly care, police, biometric identification, etc. Cameras and on-body accelerometers are widely investigated for characterizing human activity. Nonetheless, in order to achieve wide acceptance, sensors to be used for these...

Compressive Wideband Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio Applications

It has been widely recognized that utilization of radio spectrum by licensed wireless systems, e.g., TV broadcasting, aeronautical telemetry, is quite low. In particular, at any given time and spatial region, there are frequency bands where there is no signal occupancy. There has been recent interest in improving spectrum utilization by...