BitSurfing: Wireless Communications with Outsourced Symbol Generation
Ageliki Tsioliaridou, Christos Liaskos, Sotiris Ioannidis

TL;DR
BitSurfing introduces a novel wireless communication architecture for nano-IoT that eliminates traditional packet transmission by outsourcing symbol generation, enabling battery-less, event-driven, collision-free operation with high reliability.
Contribution
This work presents the first network adapter architecture that relies on external symbol generation, reducing power consumption and enabling perpetual nano-IoT operation.
Findings
Achieves nearly-perfect packet delivery rates in simulations
Operates without medium access control and is event-driven
Supports battery-less, perpetual operation in nano-IoT networks
Abstract
Nano-IoT enables a wide range of ground-breaking technologies, but face implementation challenges due to the extremity of the scale. Space restrictions pose severe power supply considerations, to the point where just a few packet transmissions are sufficient to deplete state-of-the-art supplies. In turn, this translates to difficulties in developing efficient protocols even for basic operations, such as addressing and routing. The present work proposes a new network adapter architecture that can address these challenges. The BitSurfing adapter does not generate packets and, hence, abolishes the need for the corresponding transmission circuitry and power consumption. Instead, it relies on an external symbol generator. The BitSurfing adapter reads incoming symbols, waiting for intended messages to appear in the symbol stream. A short (1-bit), low-energy pulse is then emitted to notify…
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Taxonomy
TopicsMolecular Communication and Nanonetworks · Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks · Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata
