This study proposes a novel power-efficient and anti-fading clustering based on a cross-layer that is specific to the time-varying fading characteristics of channels in the monitoring of coal mine faces with wireless sensor networks. The number of ac...
This paper presents a detailed framework for adaptive low-complexity and power-efficient resource allocation in decentralized device-to-device (D2D) networks. The adopted system model considers that active devices can directly communicate via specifi...
With the ever-increasing industrial demand for bigger, faster and more efficient systems, a growing number of cores is integrated on a single chip. Additionally, their performance is further maximized by simultaneously executing as many processes as...
With the increasing demand for implementing deep-learning models on devices on resource-constrained devices, the development of power-efficient neural networks has become imperative. This paper introduces HADQ-Net, a novel framework for optimizing de...
A real memristor crossbar has defects, which should be considered during the retraining time after the pre-training of the crossbar. For retraining the crossbar with defects, memristors should be updated with the weights that are calculated by the ba...
Gallium Nitride (GaN)-based devices offer many advantages over conventional electronic devices, such as lower input/output capacitances, a higher switching speed, and a compact size, resulting in higher-density power outputs and reduced switching los...
Battery discharging is governed by a fundamental trade-off between output power and energy conversion efficiency due to internal dissipation. In this paper, we demonstrate that such a trade-off universally yields a parabolic envelope
In this paper, we propose a power-efficient memory operation, selective match line precharge, based on an analysis of power consumption in ternary content-addressable memory (TCAM). A statistical study reveals that, on average, 58% of power dissipati...
This paper presents a novel CMOS RF-to-DC converter for ultra-low-power wireless sensor nodes powered by RF wireless power transfer. The proposed converter achieves 10% higher power conversion efficiency than a conventional rectifier, with only a 1%...
Wearable health monitoring has emerged as a promising solution to the growing need for remote health assessment and growing demand for personalized preventative care and wellness management. Vital signs can be monitored and alerts can be made when an...
In this paper, we propose an area- and power-efficient reconfigurable architecture for multifunction evaluation based on an optimized piecewise linear (PWL) method. The proposed segmentor automatically divides nonlinear functions into the fewest segm...
Machine type communication (MTC) is the key solution to the information exchange between devices. It is the fundamental part of the Internet of Things (IoT). MTC is quite different from the human type communication (HTC), as most of the MTC applicati...
For requiring high communication rate and high-quality illumination, multi-color light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have been utilized in visible light communication (VLC) systems and attracted substantial research interests. It should be noted that multip...
As a potential air control measure, RF-based surveillance is one of the most commonly used unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) surveillance methods that exploits specific emitter identification (SEI) technology to identify captured RF signal from ground c...
This paper introduces an area-optimized and power-efficient implementation of the Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) mode for an ultra-lightweight block cipher, PRESENT, and the Keyed-Hash Message Authentication Code (HMAC)-expanded PHOTON by using a feedba...
Efficient communication in the Internet of Things (IoT) is essential for enabling smart applications. While NFC excels in near-field device interaction, its limited communication range hinders LoRa’s long-range communication due to its low data...
In modern ICs, sub-threshold voltage management plays a significant role due to its perspective on energy efficiency and speed performance. Level shifters (LSs) play a critical role in signal exchange among multiple voltage domains by ensuring signal...
Energy-efficient routing is critical for extending the operational lifespan of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). While the Power-Efficient Gathering in Sensor Information Systems (PEGASIS) protocol achieves high efficiency through chain-based data agg...
Throughout the last decades, neuromorphic circuits have incited the interest of scientists, as they are potentially a powerful tool for the treatment of neurological diseases. To this end, it is essential to consider the biological principles of the...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be deployed as backup aerial base stations due to cellular outage either during or post natural disaster. In this paper, an approach involving multi-UAV three-dimensional (3D) deployment with power-efficient planni...
Most modern mobile cyber-physical systems such as smartphones come equipped with multi-processor systems-on-chip (MPSoCs) with variant computing capacity both to cater to performance requirements and reduce power consumption when executing an applica...
The resource limitations of Low-Power Wireless Networks (LP-WNs), such as Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), Wireless Actuator/Sensor Networks (WA/SNs), and Internet of Things (IoT) outdoor applications, restrict the utilization of the error-performanc...
Energy transformation powers change in the universe. In physical systems, maximal power (rate of energy input or output) may occur only at submaximal efficiency (output/input), or conversely, maximal efficiency may occur only at submaximal power. My...
This work proposes a power-efficient framework for adaptive video streaming in UAV-assisted wireless networks specially designed for disaster-hit areas where existing base stations are nonfunctional. Delivering high-quality videos requires higher vid...
An unity-gain 1-bit flip-around digital-to-analog converter (FADAC), without any capacitor matching issue, is proposed as the front-end input stage in a pipelined analog-to-digital converter (ADC), allowing an input signal voltage swing up to be doub...
Radiation sensor interfaces for battery-powered mobile dosimeters must consume low power to monitor the amount of radiation exposure over a long period. This paper proposes a power-efficient radiation sensor interface using a peak-triggered sampling...
An approach to implement single-ended power-efficient static class-AB Miller op-amps with symmetrical and significantly enhanced slew-rate and accurately controlled output quiescent current is introduced. The proposed op-amp can drive a wide range of...
Irregular cavity volume measurement is a critical step in industrial production. This technology is used in a wide variety of applications. Traditional studies, such as waterflooding-based methods, have suffered from the following shortcomings, i.e.,...
Energy consumption constraints on computing systems are more important than ever. Maintenance costs for high performance systems are limiting the applicability of processing devices with large dissipation power. New solutions are needed to increase...
The need for power-efficient devices, such as smart sensor nodes, mobile devices, and portable digital gadgets, is markedly increasing and these devices are becoming commonly used in daily life. These devices continue to demand an energy-efficient ca...
This article reviews design challenges for low-power CMOS high-speed analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). Basic ADC converter architectures (flash ADCs, interpolating and folding ADCs, subranging and two-step ADCs, pipelined ADCs, successive approxim...
This article presents a power-efficient DC-DC converter based on a switched-capacitor (SC) cell in power management systems supplied for fully integrated photovoltaic (PV) modules. These modules shall provide high-performance point-of-load voltage re...
This work describes a power-efficient bio-potential acquisition device for long-term healthcare applications that is implemented using novel microelectromechanical dry electrodes (MDE) and a low power bio-potential processing chip. Using micromachini...
This paper presents a practical implementation and measurement results of power-efficient chip performance optimization, utilizing low-cost indirect measurement methods to support self-X properties (self-calibration, self-healing, self-optimization,...
Although an inductive power transfer (IPT) system can transfer power efficiently in full-load conditions, its efficiency obviously decreases in light-load conditions. To solve this problem, based on a two-coil IPT system with a series-series compensa...
With the ongoing research on soft robots, the performance of soft actuators needs to be enhanced for more wide robotic applications. Currently, most soft robots based on pneumatic actuation are capable of assisting small systems, but they are not ful...
The extensive usage of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) has led to the development of many power- and energy-efficient routing protocols. Cooperative routing in WSNs can improve performance in these types of networks. In this paper we discuss the exis...
In this paper, an energy efficient power allocation scheme is proposed for a distributed massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system with a circular antenna array. Single-antenna users simultaneously transmit signal to the base station (BS)...
Growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) spurs need for new ways of delivering power. Wireless power transfer (WPT) has come into the spotlight from both academia and industry as a promising way to power the IoT devices. As one of the well-known WPT te...
With the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT) and wireless sensor networks (WSN), the modern world requires advanced solutions for the wireless powering of low-power autonomous devices. The present study addresses the wireless power tran...
Most of the energy used to operate a cellular network is consumed by a base station (BS), and reducing the transmission power of a BS can therefore afford a substantial reduction in the amount of energy used in a network. In this paper, we propose a...
In this study, we consider energy-efficient wireless-powered secure communications, in which N sets of transmitter, receiver, and energy harvesting (EH) nodes exist; each EH node is allowed only to harvest energy from the transmitted signals but is n...
In this paper, a power control method is proposed for a buffer-aided relay node (RN) to enhance the energy efficiency of the RN system. By virtue of a buffer, the RN can reserve the data at the buffer when the the channel gain between an RN and a des...
The Single-Source Shortest Paths (SSSP) graph problem is a fundamental computation. This study attempted to characterize concretely the energy behaviors of the two primary methods to solve it, the Bellman–Ford and Dijkstra algorithms. The very...
The transfer-efficient power allocation problem for downlink simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) is investigated in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems in this paper. In the considered system, the base stati...
In this paper, a high-efficiency GaN Doherty power amplifier (DPA) for 5G applications in the N78 sub-6 GHz band is introduced. The theoretical analysis of the matching networks for the peak and carrier transistors is presented, with a focus on the i...
As robotic platforms have become more capable, the need for improved power efficiency has grown due to increased applications and computational loads. Several methods and controllers are available in various types of robotics that can achieve increas...
This paper presents a Deep Autoencoder–LDPC–OFDM (DAE–LDPC–OFDM) transceiver architecture that integrates a learned belief propagation (BP) decoder to achieve robust, energy-efficient, and adaptive wireless communication. Unli...
The use of resource-constrained devices is rising nowadays, and these devices mostly operate with sensitive data. Consequently, security is a key issue for these devices. In this paper, we propose a compact ECC (elliptic curve cryptography) architect...
This paper proposes novel satellite-based wireless sensor networks (WSNs), which integrate the WSN with the cognitive satellite terrestrial network. Having the ability to provide seamless network access and alleviate the spectrum scarcity, cognitive...
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