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Chipnet: Enabling Large-scale Backscatter Network with Processor-free Devices

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ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Volume 18, Issue 4

Article No.: 61, Pages 1 - 26

https://doi.org/10.1145/3544492

Published: 29 November 2022 Publication History

Abstract

Differing from tremendous existing works that mainly focus on optimizing backscatter communication, Radio-to-Bus (R2B) communication utilizes backscatter to offload processors from IoT devices to the gateway, achieving processor-free devices of significantly reduced power and hardware cost. However, R2B communication is not suitable for large-scale backscatter networks, since R2B cannot support parallel and long-range communication between the gateway and hundreds of R2B devices. In this article, we present Chipnet, a network that supports hundreds of long-range and concurrent connections between the gateway and multiple processor-free devices. The high-level design of Chipnet includes a parallel frequency-division uplink mechanism that can work on processor-free devices and a processor-free MAC layer protocol that supports gateway to broadcast downlink data and individually manage each processor-free device. This design addresses practical issues facing the processor-free device architecture, such as synchronizing hundreds of processor-free devices, assigning unique channel frequencies to every device, and realizing power-efficient processor-free signal conversion. The results demonstrate that a Chipnet network can achieve a task throughput of 2,400 tasks/s with a latency of 72.23 ms. Compared with the R2B network, Chipnet achieves 3×–5× improvements in network coverage range and two orders of magnitude improvement in both network throughput and network latency.

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Li SMeng QBai YZhang CSong YLi SLu LCosta XAl Hassanieh HAsadi ACox LPerino DWidmer JGiustiniano D(2023)Go Beyond RFID: Rethinking the Design of RFID Sensor Tags for Versatile ApplicationsProceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking10.1145/3570361.3613284(1-16)Online publication date: 2-Oct-2023
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Index Terms

Chipnet: Enabling Large-scale Backscatter Network with Processor-free Devices
1. Hardware
  1. Communication hardware, interfaces and storage
    1. Sensor devices and platforms
    2. Wireless devices
  2. Power and energy
    1. Energy distribution
      1. Power conversion
2. Networks
  1. Network protocols
    1. Cross-layer protocols

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ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks Volume 18, Issue 4

November 2022

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ISSN:1550-4859

EISSN:1550-4867

DOI:10.1145/3561986

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Published: 29 November 2022

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Meng QWang HZhang CSong YLi SLu LZhu HShu YLiu JTan RHe YChen J(2024)Processor-Sharing Internet of Things Architecture for Large-scale DeploymentProceedings of the 22nd ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems10.1145/3666025.3699333(211-224)Online publication date: 4-Nov-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3666025.3699333
Li SMeng QBai YZhang CSong YLi SLu LCosta XAl Hassanieh HAsadi ACox LPerino DWidmer JGiustiniano D(2023)Go Beyond RFID: Rethinking the Design of RFID Sensor Tags for Versatile ApplicationsProceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking10.1145/3570361.3613284(1-16)Online publication date: 2-Oct-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3570361.3613284
Bao JCheng SLiu J(undefined)PAM-FOG Net: A Lightweight Weed Detection Model Deployed on Smart Weeding RobotsACM Transactions on Sensor Networks10.1145/3641821
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3641821

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