WireLESS Networking: crystal-free, battery-less and ultra-low power wireless communication

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy , SDG 9: Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure and SDG 11 Hub: Sustainable Cities & Communities.

Wireless networking plays an increasingly important role in human communication, environmental sensing, industrial process control, robotics and smart vehicles. By driving down the cost, size and energy requirements of wireless networking, we are empowered to deploy these technologies in a broader range of scenarios; from energy harvesting health implants, through battery-free environmental sensing to networks of collaborating robots. This gives rise to concepts such as Pervasive Computing, the Internet of Things (IoT) and Swarm Robotics.

This collection solicits papers on WireLESS Networking that push the boundaries of where wireless communication can be deployed by, for example:

• Single-chip wireless networks that eliminate external components such as crystal oscillators to dramatically reduce cost and transceiver size.
• Eliminating bulky, toxic and short-lived batteries in favor of energy harvesting and battery-free designs
• Sustainable approaches to networking that consider the end-to-end environmental impact of network technologies.
• Ultra low-power wireless networks that deliver communication on a power budget of micro- or even nanowatts using novel communication paradigms.
• Backscatter communication techniques, protocols and implementations.
• Integrated Sensing And Communication (ISAC) paradigms that enable embedded devices to reuse transceivers for multiple purposes
• Hardware-software co-design for energy-aware ultra-low power embedded systems.
• Ultra-low power wearables, particularly for health and wellbeing monitoring.
• Lightweight network security primitives, including cryptography, Provably Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and lightweight Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs).
• Support for cross-protocol communication, enabling mainstream radios like Bluetooth and WiFi to interact with novel low-power network technologies.
• Network support for mobile embedded systems such as swarm robotics and collaborative drone networks.
• Networking approaches for extreme environments including the deep ocean, space and within the human body.
• Passive and near-passive RF transceivers for both standards-based and novel communication technologies.
• Embedded Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Tiny Machine Learning (TinyML) applied to low-power and constrained networking.
• Techniques for achieving reliable and deterministic communication performance in the face of extreme resource constraints.

Broadly speaking, the WireLESS collection is interested in high quality papers that push the boundaries of wireless networking under extreme resource constraints in any dimension.