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Reading List

Internet of Things, Low-Power Wireless, Mobile Computing and TinyML

Prof. Dr. Ambuj Varshney

Overview Articles

1. Making Low-power and Long-range Wireless Backscatter Transmitters ACM GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications (Maker Edition) 2022
2. Sustainable sensing for a smarter planet, XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students, 2011
3. The Emergence of RF-Powered Computing, IEEE Computer Magazine 2014

Backscatter Communication

Platform

1. Design of an RFID-Based Battery-Free Programmable Sensing Platform
   IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 2008

Ambient Backscatter

These works do not require dedicated carrier emitting devices. Instead, they use ambient signals that are already present in the environment to communicate, by reflecting or absorbing them.

1. Ambient Backscatter: Wireless Communication Out of Thin Air, Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2013 conference on SIGCOMM (SIGCOMM '13)

Backscattering Commodity Protocols

These works look into synthesizing transmissions compaitable to commodity wireless standards at a very low-power consumption using backscatter mechanism.

1. Passive Wi-Fi: Bringing Low Power to Wi-Fi Transmissions, USENIX NSDI 2016
2. LoRea: A Backscatter Architecture that Achieves a Long Communication Range, ACM SENSYS 2017
3. LoRa Backscatter: Enabling The Vision of Ubiquitous Connectivity, ACM IMWUT/UBICOMP 2017
4. NetScatter: Enabling Large-Scale Backscatter Networks, USENIX NSDI 2019

Backscatter Networks and Scaling

Low-power Receiverweis

Energy Harvesting

Deployment

Human Computer Interaction/Ubicomp

Machine Learning on Embedded Platforms

1. TensorFlow Lite Micro: Embedded Machine Learning on TinyML Systems, Arxiv