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| URI | http://purl.tuc.gr/dl/dias/8123E982-15D3-4030-8179-1D67A9EB8CBC | - |
| Identifier | https://doi.org/10.26233/heallink.tuc.66155 | - |
| Language | en | - |
| Extent | 65 pages | en |
| Title | Performance analysis, middleware and hardware for bistatic, ultra-low power scatter radio networks | en |
| Creator | Tountas Konstantinos | en |
| Creator | Τουντας Κωνσταντινος | el |
| Contributor [Thesis Supervisor] | Bletsas Aggelos | en |
| Contributor [Thesis Supervisor] | Μπλετσας Αγγελος | el |
| Contributor [Committee Member] | Karystinos Georgios | en |
| Contributor [Committee Member] | Καρυστινος Γεωργιος | el |
| Contributor [Committee Member] | Deligiannakis Antonios | en |
| Contributor [Committee Member] | Δεληγιαννακης Αντωνιος | el |
| Publisher | Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης | el |
| Publisher | Technical University of Crete | en |
| Academic Unit | Technical University of Crete::School of Electrical and Computer Engineering | en |
| Academic Unit | Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης::Σχολή Ηλεκτρολόγων Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών | el |
| Content Summary | For environmental sensing applications that require dense deployments, scatter ra- dio is a promising communication scheme; since modulation is achieved by means of reflection, ultra low-cost and ultra-power RF front-ends are possible. However, scatter radio utilization in sensor networks has been limited, since commercial scatter radio applications, like Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), are limited to ranges of a few meters. This work compares the two most prominent scatter radio architec- tures, namely the monostatic and the bistatic, exploiting both communication and microwave theory basics. The comparison metrics include the bit error rate (BER) under maximum-likelihood detection for the single-user case and the outage proba- bility for the multi-user (network) case. Exact BER and tight, tag/sensor-topology independent outage probability bounds based on the Jensen inequality are derived for Rayleigh fading, in both monostatic and bistatic scatter radio networks/architectures. It is shown that the bistatic architecture improves field coverage and system reliability, compared to monostatic, for scatter wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Based on this observation, a complete, low-cost, embedded, digital, bistatic scatter radio sensor network, perhaps the first of its kind, using frequency-shift keying (FSK) modulation and frequency division multiplexing (FDM), along with randomized time division mul- tiplexing (TDM), is implemented and demonstrated. This work is perhaps a concrete step towards ultra-large scale, scatter radio sensor networks and relevant low-cost environmental monitoring applications. | en |
| Type of Item | Μεταπτυχιακή Διατριβή | el |
| Type of Item | Master Thesis | en |
| License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en |
| Date of Item | 2016-08-22 | - |
| Date of Publication | 2016 | - |
| Subject | Wireless communications | el |
| Bibliographic Citation | Konstantinos Tountas, "Performance analysis, middleware and hardware for bistatic, ultra-low power scatter radio networks", Master Thesis, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 2016 | en |
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