Ultra-low-power backscatter-based software-defined radio for intelligent and simplified IoT network

作     者：Huixin DONG Wei KUANG Fei XIAO Lihai LIU Feng XIANG Wei WANG Jianhua HE Huixin DONG;Wei KUANG;Fei XIAO;Lihai LIU;Feng XIANG;Wei WANG;Jianhua HE

作者机构：School of Electronic Information and CommunicationHuazhong University of Science and TechnologyWuhan430074China School of ManagementHuazhong University of Science and TechnologyWuhan430074China China Railway Siyuan Survey and Design Group Co.Ltd.Wuhan430063China Wuhan Maritime Communication Research InstituteWuhan430079China School of Computer Science and Electronic EngineeringUniversity of EssexColchesterCO43SQUK 

出 版 物：《Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering》 (信息与电子工程前沿（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2022年第23卷第1期

页      面：19-30页

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学科分类：0808[工学-电气工程] 08[工学] 0804[工学-仪器科学与技术] 080402[工学-测试计量技术及仪器] 0835[工学-软件工程] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 

基　　金：Project supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(Nos.2020YFB1806606 and 2016YFB1200100) the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.62071194)。 

主　　题：Backscatter Ultra-low-power SDR IoT networks 

摘      要：The recent decade has witnessed an upsurge in the demands of intelligent and simplified Internet of Things(IoT)networks that provide ultra-low-power communication for numerous miniaturized devices.Although the research community has paid great attention to wireless protocol designs for these networks,researchers are handicapped by the lack of an energy-efficient software-defined radio(SDR)platform for fast implementation and experimental evaluation.Current SDRs perform well in battery-equipped systems,but fail to support miniaturized IoT devices with stringent hardware and power constraints.This paper takes the first step toward designing an ultra-low-power SDR that satisfies the ultra-low-power or even battery-free requirements of intelligent and simplified IoT networks.To achieve this goal,the core technique is the effective integration ofµW-level backscatter in our SDR to sidestep power-hungry active radio frequency chains.We carefully develop a novel circuit design for efficient energy harvesting and power control,and devise a competent solution for eliminating the harmonic and mirror frequencies caused by backscatter hardware.We evaluate the proposed SDR using different modulation schemes,and it achieves a high data rate of 100 kb/s with power consumption less than 200µW in the active mode and as low as 10µW in the sleep mode.We also conduct a case study of railway inspection using our platform,achieving 1 kb/s battery-free data delivery to the monitoring unmanned aerial vehicle at a distance of 50 m in a real-world environment,and provide two case studies on smart factories and logistic distribution to explore the application of our platform.