Journal Articles
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[CACM'24] | The Internet of Batteryless Things Journal Saad Ahmed, Bashima Islam, Kasim Sinan Yildirim, Marco Zimmerling, Przemysław Pawełczak, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Brandon Lucia, Luca Mottola, Jacob Sorber, Josiah Hester In: Communications of the ACM, vol. 67, iss. 3, pp. 64-73, 2024. Paper | Video | BibTeX @article{Ahmed24,
title = {The Internet of Batteryless Things},
author = {Saad Ahmed and Bashima Islam and Kasim Sinan Yildirim and Marco Zimmerling and Przemysław Pawełczak and Muhammad Hamad Alizai and Brandon Lucia and Luca Mottola and Jacob Sorber and Josiah Hester},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3624718},
year = {2024},
date = {2024-02-22},
urldate = {2024-02-22},
journal = {Communications of the ACM},
volume = {67},
issue = {3},
pages = {64-73},
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[Dagstuhl'23] | Novel Scenarios for the Wireless Internet of Things (Dagstuhl Seminar 23222) Journal Haitham Hassanieh, Kyle Jamieson, Luca Mottola, Longfei Shangguan, Xia Zhou, Marco Zimmerling In: Dagstuhl Reports, vol. 13, iss. 5, pp. 182-205, 2023, ISSN: 2192-5283. Paper | Abstract | BibTeX @article{Hassanieh2023,
title = {Novel Scenarios for the Wireless Internet of Things (Dagstuhl Seminar 23222)},
author = {Haitham Hassanieh and Kyle Jamieson and Luca Mottola and Longfei Shangguan and Xia Zhou and Marco Zimmerling},
editor = {Haitham Hassanieh and Kyle Jamieson and Luca Mottola and Longfei Shangguan and Xia Zhou and Marco Zimmerling},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.4230/DagRep.13.5.182},
issn = {2192-5283},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-11-27},
urldate = {2023-11-27},
journal = {Dagstuhl Reports},
volume = {13},
issue = {5},
pages = {182-205},
abstract = {The Internet of Things (IoT) aims to network everything near and far in our ambient environment. Although the functional innovations for IoT are going full steam ahead, newly-emerging scenarios such as the Internet of Ocean and Implantable Things often come with limited power budgets, challenging deployment scenarios, and demanding computational resources, which fundamentally stress conventional IoT architecture, communications primitives, and sensing capabilities. The goal of this Dagstuhl Seminar was to bring together researchers from both academia and industry globally to i) review the capacity of existing IoT research from radical perspectives; ii) summarize fundamental challenges in modern IoT application scenarios that may then be investigated in joint research projects; and iii) discuss new types of hardware architecture, network stack, and communication primitives for these emerging IoT scenarios.},
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The Internet of Things (IoT) aims to network everything near and far in our ambient environment. Although the functional innovations for IoT are going full steam ahead, newly-emerging scenarios such as the Internet of Ocean and Implantable Things often come with limited power budgets, challenging deployment scenarios, and demanding computational resources, which fundamentally stress conventional IoT architecture, communications primitives, and sensing capabilities. The goal of this Dagstuhl Seminar was to bring together researchers from both academia and industry globally to i) review the capacity of existing IoT research from radical perspectives; ii) summarize fundamental challenges in modern IoT application scenarios that may then be investigated in joint research projects; and iii) discuss new types of hardware architecture, network stack, and communication primitives for these emerging IoT scenarios. |
[TCPS'22] | Scaling Beyond Bandwidth Limitations: Wireless Control With Stability Guarantees Under Overload Journal Fabian Mager, Dominik Baumann, Carsten Herrmann, Sebastian Trimpe, Marco Zimmerling In: ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems, vol. 6, iss. 3, 2022, ISSN: 2378-962X. Paper | Abstract | BibTeX @article{Mager2022,
title = {Scaling Beyond Bandwidth Limitations: Wireless Control With Stability Guarantees Under Overload},
author = {Fabian Mager and Dominik Baumann and Carsten Herrmann and Sebastian Trimpe and Marco Zimmerling},
doi = {10.1145/3502299},
issn = {2378-962X},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-07-01},
urldate = {2022-07-01},
journal = {ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems},
volume = {6},
issue = {3},
abstract = {An important class of cyber-physical systems relies on multiple agents that jointly perform a task by coordinating their actions over a wireless network. Examples include self-driving cars in intelligent transportation and production robots in smart manufacturing. However, the scalability of existing control-over-wireless solutions is limited as they cannot resolve overload situations in which the communication demand exceeds the available bandwidth. This paper presents a novel co-design of distributed control and wireless communication that overcomes this limitation by dynamically allocating the available bandwidth to agents with the greatest need to communicate. Experiments on a real cyber-physical testbed with 20 agents, each consisting of a low-power wireless embedded device and a cart-pole system, demonstrate that our solution achieves significantly better control performance under overload than the state of the art. We further prove that our co-design guarantees closed-loop stability for physical systems with stochastic linear time-invariant dynamics.},
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An important class of cyber-physical systems relies on multiple agents that jointly perform a task by coordinating their actions over a wireless network. Examples include self-driving cars in intelligent transportation and production robots in smart manufacturing. However, the scalability of existing control-over-wireless solutions is limited as they cannot resolve overload situations in which the communication demand exceeds the available bandwidth. This paper presents a novel co-design of distributed control and wireless communication that overcomes this limitation by dynamically allocating the available bandwidth to agents with the greatest need to communicate. Experiments on a real cyber-physical testbed with 20 agents, each consisting of a low-power wireless embedded device and a cart-pole system, demonstrate that our solution achieves significantly better control performance under overload than the state of the art. We further prove that our co-design guarantees closed-loop stability for physical systems with stochastic linear time-invariant dynamics. |
[JSys'21] | Designing Replicable Networking Experiments With TriScale Journal Romain Jacob, Marco Zimmerling, Carlo Alberto Boano, Laurent Vanbever, Lothar Thiele In: Journal of Systems Research, vol. 1, iss. 1, 2021, ISSN: 2770-5501. Paper | Video | Website | Code | BibTeX @article{Jacob2021,
title = {Designing Replicable Networking Experiments With TriScale},
author = {Romain Jacob and Marco Zimmerling and Carlo Alberto Boano and Laurent Vanbever and Lothar Thiele},
issn = {2770-5501},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-11-01},
urldate = {2021-11-01},
journal = {Journal of Systems Research},
volume = {1},
issue = {1},
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[PIEEE'21] | Wireless Control for Smart Manufacturing: Recent Approaches and Open Challenges Journal Dominik Baumann, Fabian Mager, Ulf Wetzker, Lothar Thiele, Marco Zimmerling, Sebastian Trimpe In: Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 109, iss. 4, pp. 441 - 467, 2021, ISSN: 0018-9219. Paper | Code | BibTeX @article{Baumann2021,
title = {Wireless Control for Smart Manufacturing: Recent Approaches and Open Challenges},
author = {Dominik Baumann and Fabian Mager and Ulf Wetzker and Lothar Thiele and Marco Zimmerling and Sebastian Trimpe},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1109/JPROC.2020.3032633},
issn = {0018-9219},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-04-01},
urldate = {2021-04-01},
journal = {Proceedings of the IEEE},
volume = {109},
issue = {4},
pages = {441 - 467},
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[CSUR'20] | Synchronous Transmissions in Low-Power Wireless: A Survey of Communication Protocols and Network Services Journal Marco Zimmerling, Luca Mottola, Silvia Santini In: ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 53, iss. 6, no. 121, pp. 39, 2020, ISSN: 0360-0300. Paper | BibTeX @article{Zimmerling2020,
title = {Synchronous Transmissions in Low-Power Wireless: A Survey of Communication Protocols and Network Services},
author = {Marco Zimmerling and Luca Mottola and Silvia Santini},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3410159},
issn = {0360-0300},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-12-01},
urldate = {2020-12-01},
journal = {ACM Computing Surveys},
volume = {53},
number = {121},
issue = {6},
pages = {39},
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[GetMobile'20] | Taking a Deep Dive Into The Batteryless Internet of Things With Shepherd Journal Kai Geissdoerfer, Mikołaj Chwalisz, Marco Zimmerling In: ACM GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications Review, vol. 24, iss. 3, pp. 5-8, 2020, ISSN: 2375-0529. Paper | Abstract | BibTeX @article{Geissdoerfer2020,
title = {Taking a Deep Dive Into The Batteryless Internet of Things With Shepherd},
author = {Kai Geissdoerfer and Mikołaj Chwalisz and Marco Zimmerling},
issn = {2375-0529},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-09-01},
urldate = {2020-09-01},
journal = {ACM GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications Review},
volume = {24},
issue = {3},
pages = {5-8},
abstract = {Collaboration of batteryless devices is essential to their success in replacing traditional battery-based systems. Without significant energy storage, spatio-temporal fluctuations of ambient energy
availability become critical for the correct functioning of these systems. We present Shepherd, a testbed for the batteryless Internet of Things (IoT) that can record and reproduce spatio-temporal characteristics of real energy environments to obtain insights into the challenges and opportunities of operating groups of batteryless sensor nodes.},
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Collaboration of batteryless devices is essential to their success in replacing traditional battery-based systems. Without significant energy storage, spatio-temporal fluctuations of ambient energy
availability become critical for the correct functioning of these systems. We present Shepherd, a testbed for the batteryless Internet of Things (IoT) that can record and reproduce spatio-temporal characteristics of real energy environments to obtain insights into the challenges and opportunities of operating groups of batteryless sensor nodes. |
[TCPS'20] | Fast Feedback Control over Multi-hop Wireless Networks with Mode Changes and Stability Guarantees Journal Dominik Baumann, Fabian Mager, Romain Jacob, Lothar Thiele, Marco Zimmerling, Sebastian Trimpe In: ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems, vol. 4, iss. 2, no. 18, pp. 1-32, 2020, ISSN: 2378-962X. Paper | Code | BibTeX @article{Baumann2020,
title = {Fast Feedback Control over Multi-hop Wireless Networks with Mode Changes and Stability Guarantees},
author = {Dominik Baumann and Fabian Mager and Romain Jacob and Lothar Thiele and Marco Zimmerling and Sebastian Trimpe},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3361846},
issn = {2378-962X},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-04-01},
urldate = {2020-04-01},
journal = {ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems},
volume = {4},
number = {18},
issue = {2},
pages = {1-32},
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[L-CSS'20] | Control-guided Communication: Efficient Resource Arbitration and Allocation in Multi-hop Wireless Control Systems Journal Dominik Baumann, Fabian Mager, Marco Zimmerling, Sebastian Trimpe. In: IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 4, iss. 1, 2020, ISSN: 2475-1456. Paper | Code | BibTeX @article{Baumann2020b,
title = {Control-guided Communication: Efficient Resource Arbitration and Allocation in Multi-hop Wireless Control Systems},
author = {Dominik Baumann and Fabian Mager and Marco Zimmerling and Sebastian Trimpe.},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1109/LCSYS.2019.2922188},
issn = {2475-1456},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
urldate = {2020-01-01},
journal = {IEEE Control Systems Letters},
volume = {4},
issue = {1},
institution = {IEEE Control Systems Letters},
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[IEEE TMC'19] | Energy- and Mobility-Aware Scheduling for Perpetual Trajectory Tracking Journal Philipp Sommer, Kai Geissdoerfer, R Jurdak, B Kusy, J Liu, K Zhao, A Mckeown, D Westcott In: IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, pp. 1-1, 2019, ISSN: 2161-9875. Paper | BibTeX @article{8634931,
title = {Energy- and Mobility-Aware Scheduling for Perpetual Trajectory Tracking},
author = {Philipp Sommer and Kai Geissdoerfer and R Jurdak and B Kusy and J Liu and K Zhao and A Mckeown and D Westcott},
doi = {10.1109/TMC.2019.2895336},
issn = {2161-9875},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-05-02},
urldate = {2019-05-02},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing},
pages = {1-1},
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[Sci. Rep.'18] | Renormalization Group Theory for Percolation in Time-varying Networks Journal Jens Karschau, Marco Zimmerling, Benjamin M. Friedrich In: Scientific Reports, vol. 8, no. 8011, 2018. Paper | BibTeX @article{Karschau2018,
title = {Renormalization Group Theory for Percolation in Time-varying Networks},
author = {Jens Karschau and Marco Zimmerling and Benjamin M. Friedrich},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-25363-2},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-05-01},
urldate = {2018-05-01},
journal = {Scientific Reports},
volume = {8},
number = {8011},
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[TCPS'17] | Adaptive Real-Time Communication for Wireless Cyber-Physical Systems Journal Marco Zimmerling, Luca Mottola, Pratyush Kumar, Federico Ferrari, Lothar Thiele In: ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems, vol. 1, iss. 2, no. 8, pp. 1-29, 2017, ISSN: 2378-962X. Paper | BibTeX @article{Zimmerling2017,
title = {Adaptive Real-Time Communication for Wireless Cyber-Physical Systems},
author = {Marco Zimmerling and Luca Mottola and Pratyush Kumar and Federico Ferrari and Lothar Thiele},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3012005},
issn = {2378-962X},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-02-01},
urldate = {2017-02-01},
journal = {ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems},
volume = {1},
number = {8},
issue = {2},
pages = {1-29},
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[Sensors'17] | A fast multimodal ectopic beat detection method applied for blood pressure estimation based on pulse wave velocity measurements in wearable sensors Journal Maik Pflugradt, Kai Geissdoerfer, Matthias Goernig, Reinhold Orglmeister In: Sensors (Basel), 2017. Paper | BibTeX @article{Pflugradt2017,
title = {A fast multimodal ectopic beat detection method applied for blood pressure estimation based on pulse wave velocity measurements in wearable sensors},
author = {Maik Pflugradt and Kai Geissdoerfer and Matthias Goernig and Reinhold Orglmeister},
doi = {10.3390/s17010158},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-01-17},
urldate = {2017-01-17},
journal = {Sensors (Basel)},
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Books
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[REALWSN'13] | Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks (REALWSN) Book Koen Langendoen, Wen Hu, Federico Ferrari, Marco Zimmerling, Luca Mottola Springer Press, Como (Italy), 2013. BibTeX @book{Langendoen2013,
title = {Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks (REALWSN)},
author = {Koen Langendoen, Wen Hu, Federico Ferrari, Marco Zimmerling, Luca Mottola},
url = {https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319030708, Book},
year = {2013},
date = {2013-09-01},
urldate = {2013-09-01},
publisher = {Springer Press},
address = {Como (Italy)},
organization = {REALWSN},
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Conferences
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[SenSys'24] | Riotee: An Open-source Hardware and Software Platform for the Battery-free Internet of Things Conference Kai Geissdoerfer, Marco Zimmerling Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), 2024. Paper | Website | BibTeX @conference{Geissdoerfer2024a,
title = {Riotee: An Open-source Hardware and Software Platform for the Battery-free Internet of Things},
author = {Kai Geissdoerfer and Marco Zimmerling},
year = {2024},
date = {2024-11-04},
urldate = {2024-11-04},
booktitle = { Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys)},
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[AT-RASC'24] | Green Circular Economy Design Aspects for 6G Wireless Millimeter-Wave Transceivers Conference Frank Ellinger, Helmut Morath, Xin An, Marcos Katz, Lucas Ott, Alejandra Maria Castro-Chong, Jens Wagner, Ronny Henker, Tilo Meister, Florian Protze, Frank Fitzek, Gerhard Fettweis, Eckehard Steinbach, Marco Zimmerling, Yana Vaynzof, Jens Gutzmer, Edeltraud Guenther Proceedings of the 4th URSI Atlantic Radio Science Meeting (AT-RASC), 2024. Paper | BibTeX @conference{Ellinger2024,
title = {Green Circular Economy Design Aspects for 6G Wireless Millimeter-Wave Transceivers},
author = {Frank Ellinger and Helmut Morath and Xin An and Marcos Katz and Lucas Ott and Alejandra Maria Castro-Chong and Jens Wagner and Ronny Henker and Tilo Meister and Florian Protze and Frank Fitzek and Gerhard Fettweis and Eckehard Steinbach and Marco Zimmerling and Yana Vaynzof and Jens Gutzmer and Edeltraud Guenther},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.46620/URSIATRASC24/AUFV9412},
year = {2024},
date = {2024-05-19},
urldate = {2024-05-19},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 4th URSI Atlantic Radio Science Meeting (AT-RASC)},
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[EWSN'23] | Demos: Robust Orchestration for Autonomous Networking Conference Andreas Biri, Marco Zimmerling, Lothar Thiele Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), 2023. Paper | BibTeX @conference{Biri2023b,
title = {Demos: Robust Orchestration for Autonomous Networking},
author = {Andreas Biri and Marco Zimmerling and Lothar Thiele},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-09-25},
urldate = {2023-09-25},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN)},
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[EWSN'23] | A Battery-free Wearable System for On-device Human Activity Recognition Using Kinetic Energy Harvesting Conference Milan Deumer, Moid Sandhu, Sara Khalifa, Brano Kusy, Kai Geissdoerfer, Marco Zimmerling, Raja Jurdak Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), 2023. Paper | BibTeX @conference{Deumer2023,
title = {A Battery-free Wearable System for On-device Human Activity Recognition Using Kinetic Energy Harvesting},
author = {Milan Deumer and Moid Sandhu and Sara Khalifa and Brano Kusy and Kai Geissdoerfer and Marco Zimmerling and Raja Jurdak},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-09-25},
urldate = {2023-09-25},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN)},
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[IPSN'23] | Hydra: Concurrent Coordination for Fault-tolerant Networking Conference Andreas Biri, Reto Da Forno, Tobias Kuonen, Fabian Mager, Marco Zimmerling, Lothar Thiele Proceedings of the 22nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), 2023. Paper | Code | BibTeX @conference{Biri2023a,
title = {Hydra: Concurrent Coordination for Fault-tolerant Networking},
author = {Andreas Biri and Reto Da Forno and Tobias Kuonen and Fabian Mager and Marco Zimmerling and Lothar Thiele},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-05-09},
urldate = {2023-05-09},
booktitle = { Proceedings of the 22nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN)},
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[EWSN'22] | RSSISpy: Inspecting Concurrent Transmissions in the Wild Conference Carsten Herrmann, Marco Zimmerling Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), 2022. Paper | Code | BibTeX @conference{Herrmann2022a,
title = {RSSISpy: Inspecting Concurrent Transmissions in the Wild},
author = {Carsten Herrmann and Marco Zimmerling},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-10-03},
urldate = {2022-10-03},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN)},
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[EWSN'22] | Butler: Increasing the Availability of Low-Power Wireless Communication Protocols Conference Fabian Mager, Andreas Biri, Lothar Thiele, Marco Zimmerling Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), 2022. Paper | Code | BibTeX @conference{Mager2022b,
title = {Butler: Increasing the Availability of Low-Power Wireless Communication Protocols},
author = {Fabian Mager and Andreas Biri and Lothar Thiele and Marco Zimmerling},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-10-03},
urldate = {2022-10-03},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN)},
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[NSDI'22] | Learning to Communicate Effectively Between Battery-free Devices Conference Kai Geissdoerfer, Marco Zimmerling Proceedings of the 19th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), 2022. Paper | Website | BibTeX @conference{Geissdoerfer2022,
title = {Learning to Communicate Effectively Between Battery-free Devices},
author = {Kai Geissdoerfer and Marco Zimmerling},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-04-01},
urldate = {2022-04-01},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)},
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[NSDI'21] | Bootstrapping Battery-free Wireless Networks: Efficient Neighbor Discovery and Synchronization in the Face of Intermittency Conference Kai Geissdoerfer, Marco Zimmerling Proceedings of the 18th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), 2021. Paper | Video | Website | Slides | BibTeX @conference{Geissdoerfer2021,
title = {Bootstrapping Battery-free Wireless Networks: Efficient Neighbor Discovery and Synchronization in the Face of Intermittency},
author = {Kai Geissdoerfer and Marco Zimmerling},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-04-13},
urldate = {2021-04-13},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 18th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)},
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[PerCom'21] | SolAR: Energy Positive Human Activity Recognition using Solar Cells Conference Muhammad Moid Sandhu, Sara Khalifa, Kai Geissdoerfer, Raja Jurdak, Marius Portmann Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), 2021. Paper | BibTeX @conference{Sandhu2021,
title = {SolAR: Energy Positive Human Activity Recognition using Solar Cells},
author = {Muhammad Moid Sandhu and Sara Khalifa and Kai Geissdoerfer and Raja Jurdak and Marius Portmann},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-03-23},
urldate = {2021-03-23},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom)},
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[ECRTS'20] | The Time-Triggered Wireless Architecture Conference Romain Jacob, Licong Zhang, Marco Zimmerling, Jan Beutel, Samarjit Chakraborty, Lothar Thiele Proceedings of the 32nd Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS), 2020. Paper | Video | Website | Slides | Code | BibTeX @conference{Jacob2020,
title = {The Time-Triggered Wireless Architecture},
author = {Romain Jacob and Licong Zhang and Marco Zimmerling and Jan Beutel and Samarjit Chakraborty and Lothar Thiele},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-07-01},
urldate = {2020-07-01},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 32nd Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS)},
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[PerCom'20] | Towards Energy Positive Sensing using Kinetic Energy Harvesters Conference Muhammad Moid Sandhu, Kai Geissdoerfer, Sara Khalifa, Raja Jurdak, Marius Portmann, Brano Kusy Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), 2020. Paper | Abstract | BibTeX @conference{Sandhu2020,
title = {Towards Energy Positive Sensing using Kinetic Energy Harvesters},
author = {Muhammad Moid Sandhu and Kai Geissdoerfer and Sara Khalifa and Raja Jurdak and Marius Portmann and Brano Kusy},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-03-23},
urldate = {2020-03-23},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom)},
abstract = {Conventional systems for motion context detection rely on batteries to provide the energy required for sampling a motion sensor. Batteries, however, have limited capacity and, once depleted, have to be replaced or recharged. Kinetic Energy Harvesting (KEH) allows to convert ambient motion and vibration into usable electricity and can enable batteryless, maintenance free operation of motion sensors. The signal from a KEH transducer correlates with the underlying motion and may thus directly be used for context detection, saving space, cost and energy by omitting the accelerometer. Previous work uses the open circuit or the capacitor voltage for sensing without using the harvested energy to power a load. In this paper, we propose to use other sensing points in the KEH circuit that offer information-rich sensing signals while the energy from the harvester is used to power a load. We systematically analyze multiple sensing signals available in different KEH architectures and compare their performance in a transport mode detection case study. To this end, we develop four hardware prototypes, conduct an extensive measurement campaign and use the data to train and evaluate different classifiers. We show that sensing the harvesting current signal from a transducer can be energy positive, delivering up to ten times as much power as it consumes for signal acquisition, while offering comparable detection accuracy to the accelerometer signal for most of the considered transport modes.},
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Conventional systems for motion context detection rely on batteries to provide the energy required for sampling a motion sensor. Batteries, however, have limited capacity and, once depleted, have to be replaced or recharged. Kinetic Energy Harvesting (KEH) allows to convert ambient motion and vibration into usable electricity and can enable batteryless, maintenance free operation of motion sensors. The signal from a KEH transducer correlates with the underlying motion and may thus directly be used for context detection, saving space, cost and energy by omitting the accelerometer. Previous work uses the open circuit or the capacitor voltage for sensing without using the harvested energy to power a load. In this paper, we propose to use other sensing points in the KEH circuit that offer information-rich sensing signals while the energy from the harvester is used to power a load. We systematically analyze multiple sensing signals available in different KEH architectures and compare their performance in a transport mode detection case study. To this end, we develop four hardware prototypes, conduct an extensive measurement campaign and use the data to train and evaluate different classifiers. We show that sensing the harvesting current signal from a transducer can be energy positive, delivering up to ten times as much power as it consumes for signal acquisition, while offering comparable detection accuracy to the accelerometer signal for most of the considered transport modes. |
[SenSys'19] | Shepherd: A Portable Testbed for the Batteryless IoT Conference Kai Geissdoerfer, Mikolaj Chwalisz, Marco Zimmerling Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), 2019. Paper | Website | BibTeX @conference{Geissdoerfer2019c,
title = {Shepherd: A Portable Testbed for the Batteryless IoT},
author = {Kai Geissdoerfer and Mikolaj Chwalisz and Marco Zimmerling},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-11-01},
urldate = {2019-11-01},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys)},
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[ICCPS'19] | Feedback Control Goes Wireless: Guaranteed Stability over Low-power Multi-hop Networks Conference Fabian Mager, Dominik Baumann, Romain Jacob, Lothar Thiele, Sebastian Trimpe, Marco Zimmerling Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS), 2019. Paper | Video | Code | BibTeX @conference{Mager2019Apr,
title = {Feedback Control Goes Wireless: Guaranteed Stability over Low-power Multi-hop Networks},
author = {Fabian Mager and Dominik Baumann and Romain Jacob and Lothar Thiele and Sebastian Trimpe and Marco Zimmerling},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-04-01},
urldate = {2019-04-01},
booktitle = { Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS)},
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[IPSN'19] | Getting More Out of Energy-harvesting Systems: Energy Management under Time-varying Utility with PreAcT Conference Kai Geissdoerfer, Raja Jurdak, Brano Kusy, Marco Zimmerling Proceedings of the 18th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), 2019. Paper | BibTeX @conference{Geissdoerfer2019Apr,
title = {Getting More Out of Energy-harvesting Systems: Energy Management under Time-varying Utility with PreAcT},
author = {Kai Geissdoerfer and Raja Jurdak and Brano Kusy and Marco Zimmerling},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-04-01},
urldate = {2019-04-01},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 18th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN)},
journal = {2019 18th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN)},
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[SenSys'18] | Mixer: Efficient Many-to-All Broadcast in Dynamic Wireless Mesh Networks Conference Carsten Herrmann, Fabian Mager, Marco Zimmerling Proceedings of the 16th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), 2018. Paper | Website | Slides | BibTeX @conference{Herrmann2018Nov,
title = {Mixer: Efficient Many-to-All Broadcast in Dynamic Wireless Mesh Networks},
author = {Carsten Herrmann and Fabian Mager and Marco Zimmerling},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-11-01},
urldate = {2018-11-01},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 16th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys)},
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[DATE'18] | TTW: A Time-Triggered-Wireless Design for CPS Conference Romain Jacob, Licong Zhang, Marco Zimmerling, Jan Beutel, Samarjit Chakraborty, Lothar Thiele Proceedings of ACM/IEEE/EDAA Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), 2018. Paper | BibTeX @conference{Jacob2018,
title = {TTW: A Time-Triggered-Wireless Design for CPS},
author = {Romain Jacob and Licong Zhang and Marco Zimmerling and Jan Beutel and Samarjit Chakraborty and Lothar Thiele},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-03-05},
urldate = {2018-03-05},
booktitle = {Proceedings of ACM/IEEE/EDAA Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE)},
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[WSA'18] | Improving Robustness for Anisotropic Sparse Recovery using Matrix Extensions Conference Carsten Herrmann, Yun Lu, Christian Scheunert, Peter Jung 22nd International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas, VDE, 2018. Paper | BibTeX @conference{8385473,
title = {Improving Robustness for Anisotropic Sparse Recovery using Matrix Extensions},
author = {Carsten Herrmann and Yun Lu and Christian Scheunert and Peter Jung},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-03-01},
booktitle = {22nd International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas},
pages = {1-7},
publisher = {VDE},
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[SenSys'17] | BLEach: Exploiting the Full Potential of IPv6 over BLE in Constrained Embedded IoT Devices Conference Michael Spoerk, Carlo Alberto Boano, Marco Zimmerling, Kay Roemer Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), 2017. Paper | Website | BibTeX @conference{Spoerk2017,
title = {BLEach: Exploiting the Full Potential of IPv6 over BLE in Constrained Embedded IoT Devices},
author = {Michael Spoerk and Carlo Alberto Boano and Marco Zimmerling and Kay Roemer},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-11-06},
urldate = {2017-11-06},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys)},
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[ICCCN'17] | Multi-flow Glossy: Physical-layer Network Coding Meets Embedded Wireless Systems Conference Abdelrahman Abdelkader, Johannes Richter, Eduard Jorswieck, Marco Zimmerling Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 2017. Paper | BibTeX @conference{Abdelkader2017,
title = {Multi-flow Glossy: Physical-layer Network Coding Meets Embedded Wireless Systems},
author = {Abdelrahman Abdelkader and Johannes Richter and Eduard Jorswieck and Marco Zimmerling},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-07-03},
urldate = {2017-07-03},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN)},
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[COCOA'17] | Centralized and Distributed Optimum Power Control and Beam-forming in Network Flooding Conference Abdelrahman Abdelkader, Eduard Jorswieck, Marco Zimmerling In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Competitive and Cooperative Approaches for 5G Networks Dresden (Germany), 2017. Paper | BibTeX @conference{Abdelkader2017b,
title = {Centralized and Distributed Optimum Power Control and Beam-forming in Network Flooding},
author = {Abdelrahman Abdelkader and Eduard Jorswieck and Marco Zimmerling},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-05-01},
address = {Dresden (Germany)},
organization = {In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Competitive and Cooperative Approaches for 5G Networks},
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[RTSS'16] | End-to-end Real-time Guarantees in Wireless Cyber-physical Systems Conference Romain Jacob, Marco Zimmerling, Pengcheng Huang, Jan Beutel, Lothar Thiele Proceedings of the 37th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2016. Paper | BibTeX @conference{Jacob2016,
title = {End-to-end Real-time Guarantees in Wireless Cyber-physical Systems},
author = {Romain Jacob and Marco Zimmerling and Pengcheng Huang and Jan Beutel and Lothar Thiele},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-12-01},
urldate = {2016-12-01},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 37th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS)},
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[SenSys'16] | Staffetta: Smart Duty-Cycling for Opportunistic Data Collection Conference Marco Cattani, Andreas Loukas, Marco Zimmerling, Marco Zuniga, Koen Langendoen Proceedings of the 14th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), 2016. Paper | Code | BibTeX @conference{Cattani2016,
title = {Staffetta: Smart Duty-Cycling for Opportunistic Data Collection},
author = {Marco Cattani and Andreas Loukas and Marco Zimmerling and Marco Zuniga and Koen Langendoen},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-11-01},
urldate = {2016-11-01},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 14th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys)},
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[EUC'16] | Troubleshooting Wireless Coexistence Problems in the Industrial Internet of Things Conference Ulf Wetzker, Ingmar Splitt, Marco Zimmerling, Carlo Alberto Boano, Kay Roemer Proceedings of the 14th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC), 2016. Paper | BibTeX @conference{Wetzker2016,
title = {Troubleshooting Wireless Coexistence Problems in the Industrial Internet of Things},
author = {Ulf Wetzker and Ingmar Splitt and Marco Zimmerling and Carlo Alberto Boano and Kay Roemer},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-08-01},
urldate = {2016-08-01},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 14th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC)},
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[ECRTS'16] | Towards Real-time Wireless Cyber-physical Systems Conference Romain Jacob, Marco Zimmerling, Pengcheng Huang, Jan Beutel, Lothar Thiele Work-in-Progress Proceedings of the 28th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS), 2016. Paper | BibTeX @conference{Jacob2016b,
title = {Towards Real-time Wireless Cyber-physical Systems},
author = {Romain Jacob and Marco Zimmerling and Pengcheng Huang and Jan Beutel and Lothar Thiele},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-07-04},
urldate = {2016-07-04},
booktitle = {Work-in-Progress Proceedings of the 28th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS)},
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[SenSys'15] | Bolt: A Stateful Processor Interconnect Conference Felix Sutton, Marco Zimmerling, Reto Da Forno, Roman Lim, Tonio Gsell, Georgia Giannopoulou, Federico Ferrari, Jan Beutel, Lothar Thiele Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), 2015. Paper | Video | Website | Code | BibTeX @conference{Sutton2015,
title = {Bolt: A Stateful Processor Interconnect},
author = {Felix Sutton and Marco Zimmerling and Reto Da Forno and Roman Lim and Tonio Gsell and Georgia Giannopoulou and Federico Ferrari and Jan Beutel and Lothar Thiele},
year = {2015},
date = {2015-11-02},
urldate = {2015-11-02},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys)},
keywords = {},
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[DCOSS'15] | Passive, Privacy-Preserving Real-Time Counting of Unmodified Smartphones via ZigBee Interference Conference Roman Lim, Marco Zimmerling, Lothar Thiele Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), 2015. Paper | BibTeX @conference{Lim2015,
title = {Passive, Privacy-Preserving Real-Time Counting of Unmodified Smartphones via ZigBee Interference},
author = {Roman Lim and Marco Zimmerling and Lothar Thiele},
year = {2015},
date = {2015-06-01},
urldate = {2015-06-01},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS)},
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[SenSys'13] | Chaos: Versatile and Efficient All-to-All Data Sharing and In-Network Processing at Scale Conference Olaf Landsiedel, Federico Ferrari, Marco Zimmerling Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), 2013. Paper | Code | BibTeX @conference{Landsiedel2013,
title = { Chaos: Versatile and Efficient All-to-All Data Sharing and In-Network Processing at Scale},
author = {Olaf Landsiedel and Federico Ferrari and Marco Zimmerling},
year = {2013},
date = {2013-11-01},
urldate = {2013-11-01},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys)},
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[SRDS'13] | Virtual Synchrony Guarantees for Cyber-Physical Systems Conference Federico Ferrari, Marco Zimmerling, Luca Mottola, Lothar Thiele Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), 2013. Paper | BibTeX @conference{Ferrari2013,
title = {Virtual Synchrony Guarantees for Cyber-Physical Systems},
author = {Federico Ferrari and Marco Zimmerling and Luca Mottola and Lothar Thiele},
year = {2013},
date = {2013-10-01},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS)},
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[MASCOTS'13] | On Modeling Low-Power Wireless Protocols Based on Synchronous Packet Transmissions Conference Marco Zimmerling, Federico Ferrari, Luca Mottola, Lothar Thiele Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), 2013. Paper | Slides | BibTeX @conference{Zimmerling2013,
title = {On Modeling Low-Power Wireless Protocols Based on Synchronous Packet Transmissions},
author = {Marco Zimmerling and Federico Ferrari and Luca Mottola and Lothar Thiele},
year = {2013},
date = {2013-08-01},
urldate = {2013-08-01},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS)},
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[IPSN'13] | FlockLab: A Testbed for Distributed, Synchronized Tracing and Profiling of Wireless Embedded Systems Conference Roman Lim, Federico Ferrari, Marco Zimmerling, Christoph Walser, Philipp Sommer, Jan Beutel Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), 2013. Paper | Website | BibTeX @conference{Lim2013,
title = {FlockLab: A Testbed for Distributed, Synchronized Tracing and Profiling of Wireless Embedded Systems},
author = {Roman Lim and Federico Ferrari and Marco Zimmerling and Christoph Walser and Philipp Sommer and Jan Beutel},
year = {2013},
date = {2013-04-01},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN)},
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[SenSys'12] | Low-Power Wireless Bus Conference Federico Ferrari, Marco Zimmerling, Luca Mottola, Lothar Thiele Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), 2012. Paper | Code | BibTeX @conference{Ferrari2012,
title = {Low-Power Wireless Bus},
author = {Federico Ferrari and Marco Zimmerling and Luca Mottola and Lothar Thiele},
year = {2012},
date = {2012-11-01},
urldate = {2012-11-01},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys)},
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[IPSN'12] | pTunes: Runtime Parameter Adaptation for Low-power MAC Protocols Conference Marco Zimmerling, Federico Ferrari, Luca Mottola, Thiemo Voigt, Lothar Thiele Proceedings of the 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), 2012. Paper | Slides | Code | BibTeX @conference{Zimmerling2012,
title = {pTunes: Runtime Parameter Adaptation for Low-power MAC Protocols},
author = {Marco Zimmerling and Federico Ferrari and Luca Mottola and Thiemo Voigt and Lothar Thiele},
year = {2012},
date = {2012-04-01},
urldate = {2012-04-01},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN)},
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[IQ2S'12] | The Bus goes Wireless: Routing-Free Data Collection with QoS Guarantees in Sensor Networks Conference Federico Ferrari, Marco Zimmerling, Lothar Thiele, Luca Mottola Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Information Quality and Quality of Service for Pervasive Computing (IQ2S—co-located with IEEE PerCom), 2012, ISBN: 978-1-4673-0905-9. Paper | BibTeX @conference{Ferrari2012b,
title = {The Bus goes Wireless: Routing-Free Data Collection with QoS Guarantees in Sensor Networks},
author = {Federico Ferrari and Marco Zimmerling and Lothar Thiele and Luca Mottola},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1109/PerComW.2012.6197493},
isbn = {978-1-4673-0905-9},
year = {2012},
date = {2012-03-19},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Information Quality and Quality of Service for Pervasive Computing (IQ2S—co-located with IEEE PerCom)},
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[IPSN'11] | Efficient Network Flooding and Time Synchronization with Glossy Conference Federico Ferrari, Marco Zimmerling, Lothar Thiele, Olga Saukh Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), 2011. Paper | Code | BibTeX @conference{Ferrari2011,
title = {Efficient Network Flooding and Time Synchronization with Glossy},
author = {Federico Ferrari and Marco Zimmerling and Lothar Thiele and Olga Saukh},
year = {2011},
date = {2011-04-01},
urldate = {2011-04-01},
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[DATE'11] | X-SENSE: Sensing in Extreme Environments Conference Jan Beutel, Bernhard Buchli, Federico Ferrari, Matthias Keller, Lothar Thiele, Marco Zimmerling Proceedings of Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition (DATE), 2011, ISBN: 978-3-9810801-7-9. Paper | Slides | Abstract | BibTeX @conference{Beutel2011,
title = {X-SENSE: Sensing in Extreme Environments},
author = {Jan Beutel and Bernhard Buchli and Federico Ferrari and Matthias Keller and Lothar Thiele and Marco Zimmerling},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1109/DATE.2011.5763236},
isbn = {978-3-9810801-7-9},
year = {2011},
date = {2011-03-14},
urldate = {2011-03-14},
booktitle = {Proceedings of Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition (DATE)},
abstract = {The field of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is now in a stage where serious applications of societal and economical importance are in reach. For example, it is well known that the global climate change dramatically influences the visual appearance of mountain areas like the European Alps. Very destructive geological processes may be triggered or intensified, impacting the stability of slopes, possibly inducing landslides. Unfortunately, the interactions between these complex processes is poorly understood. Therefore, one needs to develop wireless sensing technology as a new scientific instrument for environmental sensing under extreme conditions. Large variations in temperature, humidity, mechanical forces, snow coverage, and unattended operation play a crucial role in long-term deployments. We argue that, in order to significantly advance the application domain, it is inevitable that sensor networks be created as a quality scientific instrument with known and predictable properties, and not as a research toy delivering average observations at best. In this paper, key techniques for achieving highly reliable, yet resource efficient wireless sensor networks are discussed on the basis of productive wireless sensor networks measuring permafrost processes in the Swiss Alps.},
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The field of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is now in a stage where serious applications of societal and economical importance are in reach. For example, it is well known that the global climate change dramatically influences the visual appearance of mountain areas like the European Alps. Very destructive geological processes may be triggered or intensified, impacting the stability of slopes, possibly inducing landslides. Unfortunately, the interactions between these complex processes is poorly understood. Therefore, one needs to develop wireless sensing technology as a new scientific instrument for environmental sensing under extreme conditions. Large variations in temperature, humidity, mechanical forces, snow coverage, and unattended operation play a crucial role in long-term deployments. We argue that, in order to significantly advance the application domain, it is inevitable that sensor networks be created as a quality scientific instrument with known and predictable properties, and not as a research toy delivering average observations at best. In this paper, key techniques for achieving highly reliable, yet resource efficient wireless sensor networks are discussed on the basis of productive wireless sensor networks measuring permafrost processes in the Swiss Alps. |