scholarly journals Temporal Encoding to Reject Background Signals in a Low Complexity, Photon Counting Communication Link

Materials ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 1671 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Griffiths ◽  
Johannes Herrnsdorf ◽  
Christopher Lowe ◽  
Malcolm Macdonald ◽  
Robert Henderson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Consumption ◽  
Low Power ◽  
Single Photon ◽  
Photon Counting ◽  
Low Complexity ◽  
Low Power Consumption ◽  
Communication Link ◽  
Free Space Optical ◽  
Received Power ◽  
Temporal Encoding

Communicating information at the few photon level typically requires some complexity in the transmitter or receiver in order to operate in the presence of noise. This in turn incurs expense in the necessary spatial volume and power consumption of the system. In this work, we present a self-synchronised free-space optical communications system based on simple, compact and low power consumption semiconductor devices. A temporal encoding method, implemented using a gallium nitride micro-LED source and a silicon single photon avalanche photo-detector (SPAD), demonstrates data transmission at rates up to 100 kb/s for 8.25 pW received power, corresponding to 27 photons per bit. Furthermore, the signals can be decoded in the presence of both constant and modulated background noise at levels significantly exceeding the signal power. The system’s low power consumption and modest electronics requirements are demonstrated by employing it as a communications channel between two nano-satellite simulator systems.

scholarly journals Reconfigurable on-chip communication link for efficient communication

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2-1) ◽  
pp. 417
Author(s):  
Beulah Hemalatha S ◽  
Vigneswaran T
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Power Consumption ◽  
Low Power ◽  
Optimization Problems ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Low Power Consumption ◽  
Communication Link ◽  
Simulated System ◽  
Efficient Communication ◽  
On Chip

Application specific reconfiguration of On-chip communication link is a fast growing research area in system on chip (SoC) based system design. Optimization of the communication link is important to achieve a trade-off between efficient communication and low power consumption. So achieving both efficient communication and low power consumption requires a special optimization mechanism. Such Optimization problems can be solved using a genetic algorithm. Here, in this paper genetic algorithm based On-chip communication link reconfiguration is presented. The algorithm will optimize efficiency of communication link with constrain of low power consumption. The parameters involved in power consumption and efficient communication link are coded in the chromosomes. By evolutionary iteration the optimal parameters of the communication link are derived that is used for the communication link successfully in the simulated system. The performance of the simulated system is analyzed which shows the out performance of the proposed system.

scholarly journals Low Power Consumption Digital Clock Recovery Circuit Based on Threshold Crossing

2016 ◽  
Vol 67 (6) ◽  
pp. 433-438
Author(s):  
Dragana Perić ◽  
Miroslav Perić
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Model ◽  
Power Consumption ◽  
Low Power ◽  
Phase Error ◽  
Low Complexity ◽  
Clock Recovery ◽  
Low Power Consumption ◽  
Single Chip ◽  
Digital Clock ◽  
Measurement Methodology

Abstract In this paper a new structure of digital clock recovery — DCR circuit is presented. The main features of this DCR are: low complexity design, low power consumption and a single system clock operation. Thus, multiple instantiation of this type of DCR on a single chip is not complex. Due to this, such DCR can target application in energy-efficient cognitive radio systems with carrier aggregation. For performance evaluation, we have derived Markov chain based mathematical model for peak-to-peak and root mean square jitter performance analysis. The stability problem of this model, rising from the fact that some phase error states have several orders of magnitude lower probabilities than the others, is solved using mathematical apparatus for symbolic analysis. The mathematical model validity is examined by laboratorial measurements of proposed DCR for 4-PAM signal. The measurement methodology and results are described in details.

scholarly journals No Communication Nodes Synchronization for a Low Power Consumption MAC Protocol in WSN based on IR-UWB

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anouar Darif ◽  
Rachid Saadane ◽  
Driss Aboutajdine
Keyword(s):  
Power Consumption ◽  
Low Power ◽  
Mac Protocol ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Wide Band ◽  
Multipath Fading ◽  
Low Complexity ◽  
Low Power Consumption ◽  
Indoor Environments ◽  
Synchronization Mechanism

Synchronization is an important issue in multi hops Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). Such networks are known by their limited resources of energy, storage, computation, and bandwidth. In addition if the networks entities are deployed with high density, it makes the synchronization mandatory for these networks. Impulse Radio Ultra Wide Band (IR-UWB) technology is a promising solution for this kind of networks due to its various advantages such as its robustness to severe multipath fading even in indoor environments, its low cost, low complexity, and low power consumption. To exploit the specific features of this technology, we need a convenient MAC protocol. WideMac was presented as a new low power consumption MAC protocol designed for WSN using IR-UWB transceivers. Because of the luck of synchronization in this protocol, this paper presents a solution for the synchronization problem especially in the case of no communication between the Network’s nodes. To implement and evaluate the proposed synchronization mechanism, we used MiXiM platform under OMNet++ Simulator.

scholarly journals Energy Efficiency Analysis of MIMO Wideband RF Front-End Receivers

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (24) ◽  
pp. 7070
Author(s):  
Eduil Nascimento Junior ◽  
Guilherme Theis ◽  
Edson Leonardo dos Santos ◽  
André Augusto Mariano ◽  
Glauber Brante ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Power Consumption ◽  
Low Power ◽  
Noise Figure ◽  
Low Noise ◽  
Low Power Consumption ◽  
Communication Link ◽  
Active Antennas ◽  
Front End ◽  
Rf Front End

Energy-efficiency is crucial for modern radio-frequency (RF) receivers dedicated to Internet of Things applications. Energy-efficiency enhancements could be achieved by lowering the power consumption of integrated circuits, using antenna diversity or even with an association of both strategies. This paper compares two wideband RF front-end architectures, based on conventional low-noise amplifiers (LNA) and low-noise transconductance amplifiers (LNTA) with N-path filters, operating with three transmission schemes: single antenna, antenna selection and singular value decomposition beamforming. Our results show that the energy-efficiency behavior varies depending on the required communication link conditions, distance between nodes and metrics from the front-end receivers. For short-range scenarios, LNA presents the best performance in terms of energy-efficiency mainly due to its very low power consumption. With the increasing of the communication distance, the very low noise figure provided by N-path LNTA-based architectures outperforms the power consumption issue, yielding higher energy-efficiency for all transmission schemes. In addition, the selected front-end architecture depends on the number of active antennas at the receiver. Hence, we can observe that low noise figure is more important with a few active antennas at the receiver, while low power consumption becomes more important when the number of active RF chains at the receiver increases.

Optimal design of a high homogeneous and small-size shim coil for atomic spin gyroscope based on 0-1 linear programming

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 165-172
Author(s):  
Dongge Deng ◽  
Mingzhi Zhu ◽  
Qiang Shu ◽  
Baoxu Wang ◽  
Fei Yang
Keyword(s):  
Linear Programming ◽  
Power Consumption ◽  
Low Power ◽  
Optimization Design ◽  
Structural Parameters ◽  
Axial Position ◽  
Low Power Consumption ◽  
Optimal Method ◽  
Atomic Spin ◽  
Shim Coil

It is necessary to develop a high homogeneous, low power consumption, high frequency and small-size shim coil for high precision and low-cost atomic spin gyroscope (ASG). To provide the shim coil, a multi-objective optimization design method is proposed. All structural parameters including the wire diameter are optimized. In addition to the homogeneity, the size of optimized coil, especially the axial position and winding number, is restricted to develop the small-size shim coil with low power consumption. The 0-1 linear programming is adopted in the optimal model to conveniently describe winding distributions. The branch and bound algorithm is used to solve this model. Theoretical optimization results show that the homogeneity of the optimized shim coil is several orders of magnitudes better than the same-size solenoid. A simulation experiment is also conducted. Experimental results show that optimization results are verified, and power consumption of the optimized coil is about half of the solenoid when providing the same uniform magnetic field. This indicates that the proposed optimal method is feasible to develop shim coil for ASG.

An Ultra-low Power Consumption MAC Protocol Complied with IEEE 802.15.4/4e for Wireless Smart Utility Networks

2016 ◽  
Vol 136 (11) ◽  
pp. 1555-1566 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Fujiwara ◽  
Hiroshi Harada ◽  
Takuya Kawata ◽  
Kentaro Sakamoto ◽  
Sota Tsuchiya ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Consumption ◽  
Low Power ◽  
Ieee 802.15.4 ◽  
Mac Protocol ◽  
Low Power Consumption ◽  
Ultra Low Power
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