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Welcome to the Pervasive Wireless Systems Group. The group is led by Dr. Domenico Giustiniano and it investigates pervasive communication using innovative wireless systems. The approach of the group is to build and deploy solid prototype systems to support and validate the theoretical and simulation studies. The current main areas of research are:
- Visible Light Communication Systems (openvlc.org)
- Large-scale Spectrum Monitoring Systems (electrosense.org)
- 5G Localization Systems
What’s new!
SOMIRO: New H2020 project granted!
Persys Group has been awarded funding from the European Union, for the project SOMIRO: “Soft Milli-robots”. The SOMIRO project will develop a flat-worm-inspired mm-scale swimming robot with month-long energy autonomy, local intelligence, and ability to continuously generate data and optically communicate to reduce farming’s environmental impact in terms of carbon footprint, over fertilization, pesticide use, and overfeeding. The project is led at IMDEA Networks by Domenico Giustiniano, started on January 1st 2021, and will have a duration of 36 months.
European Researchers’ Night 2020
The team, made up of Domenico Giustiniano (Research Associate Professor), Borja Genovés Guzmán (Post-doc Researcher) and Muhammad Sarmad Shahab Mir (PhD Student) from IMDEA Networks, participated in European Researchers’ Night on 27 November, an event promoted by the Regional Ministry of Science, Universities and Innovation and coordinated by the madri+d Foundation (funded by the European Union within its research and innovation programme, Horizon 2020).
“Green light for the Earth”: IMDEA Networks at Science and Innovation Week 2020
Battery disposal causes harm to the environment, and, as the number of IoT grows, replacing the battery of each IoT device on earth is not viable anymore. The scientific community is recently seeking to design networks that don’t need any battery to communicate as a solution to this problem. IMDEA Networks is actively engaged in this area, and the team consisting of Domenico Giustiniano (Research Associate Professor), Borja Genovés Guzmán (Post-doc Researcher) and Muhammad Sarmad Shahab Mir (PhD Student) from IMDEA Networks, together with Ambuj Varshney (Post-doc Researcher) from University of California, Berkeley, have designed the first prototype of battery-free IoT device that leverages the advantages of two cutting-edge technologies: LiFi and RF backscatter. The researchers of IMDEA Networks Institute have presented the system in the Week of Science and Innovation 2020 with an event titled “Green Light for the Earth”.
Team
Scientific Direction
Research
Research Engineering & Support
Admin
Interns
Nikolaos Apostolakis
Alumni
Roberto Calvo
PhD student and Postdoctoral Researcher
Current Position: Assistant Professor at URJC, Spain
Maurizio Rea
PhD student and Postdoctoral Researcher
Current Position: Senior Researcher at i2cat, Spain.
Ander Galisteo
PhD student
Current Position: Ikerland, Spain
Aymen Fakhreddine
PhD student
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher at Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
Qing Wang
PhD student
Current Position: Assistant Professor at TU Delft, Netherlands
Projects
ENLIGHT’EM
European Training Network in Low-energy Visible Light IoT Systems
IMDEA Networks is the project coordinator
TAPIR-CM
Advanced techniques to enhance the intelligence of 5G networks
IMDEA Networks is the project coordinator
LOCUS
LOCalization and analytics on-demand embedded in the 5G ecosystem, for Ubiquitous vertical applicationS
IMDEA Networks is the beneficiary of this project
P
PinPoint 5G+
Accurate, Pervasive and Low-Latency Positioning to Innovate 5G Networks and Beyond
IMDEA Networks is the coordinator of this project
MYP-SOCRATES
Large Scale Collaborative Detection and Location of Threats in the Electromagnetic Space
IMDEA Networks is the project coordinator
Previous projects
ARMASUISSE - CompPos
SPECTRUMCOP PROGRAM: SpecScale
Technologies for Collaborative Detection of Spectrum Anomalies
ARMASUISSE - SpecScale
SPECTRUMCOP PROGRAM: MONTEBIANCO
Technologies for Collaborative Detection of Spectrum Anomalies
Location-aware MAC scheduling in Mobile and Dense Networks
Location-aware MAC programming in dense and mobile networks
SPECTRUMCOP PROGRAM: SPECTRUMCOP II
Technologies for Collaborative Detection of Spectrum Anomalies
Flex5Gware
Flexible and efficient hardware/software platforms for 5G network elements and devices
SPECTRUMCOP PROGRAM: SPECTRUMCOP I
Technologies for Collaborative Detection of Spectrum Anomalies
MATISSE
Pervasive Mobile Location and Spectrum Sensing Systems
WIRELESS NETWORK DEPLOYMENT AND Wi-Fi BASED INDOOR LOCALIZATION
OPPORTUNISTIC TIMING SIGNALS FOR PERVASIVE MOBILE LOCATION
SWARMIX
Synergistic Interactions in Swarms of Heterogeneous Agents
Publications
A Cell-free Networking System with Visible Light
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 10.1109/TNET.2020.2966322. Volume 28 , Co-sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society, the IEEE Computer Society, and the ACM with its Special Interest Group on Data Communications (SIGCOMM). ISSN: 1063-6692. April 2020
Poster: Integration between Home Automation and Visible Light Communications (Other)
International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks. Lyon, France. February 2020
Smartphone Positioning with Radio Measurements from a Single WiFi Access Point
The 15th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (ACM CoNEXT 2019). Orlando, Florida, USA. December 2019
Time-of-flight Wireless Indoor Navigation System for Industrial Environment
The 13th ACM Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & CHaracterization (ACM WiNTECH 2019), 21-25 October 2019, Los Cabos, Mexico. October 2019
A Framework for Analyzing Spectrum Characteristics in Large Spatio-temporal Scales
The 25th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2019). Los Cabos, Mexico. October 2019
Demo: Video Transmission Using Low-Cost Visible Light Communication (Demo, peer-reviewed)
The 20th International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (ACM MobiHoc 2019). Catania, Italy. July 2019
Tweeting with Sunlight: Encoding Data on Mobile Objects
The 38th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2019). Paris, France. April 2019
Research in Visible Light Communication Systems with OpenVLC1.3
The IEEE 5th World Forum on Internet of Things (IEEE WF-IoT 2019). Limerick, Ireland. April 2019
Collaborative Wideband Signal Decoding using Non-coherent Receivers
The 18th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2019), in conjunction with CPS-IoT WEEK 2019. Montreal, Canada. April 2019
DenseVLC: A Cell-Free Massive MIMO System with Distributed LEDs
The 14th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (ACM CoNEXT 2018). Heraklion/Crete, Greece. December 2018
Infrastructure
The group owns several USRP B210s, used for 5G localization, spectrum sensing and LiFi infrastructure. It owns an experimental testbed for Wi-Fi indoor localization based on Time-of-Flight ranging and several Soekris boards operating as network infrastructure, being used also in indoor localization competitions, as well as FitLet 2 with Intel8260 chipset access points. Training of deep learning algorithms for spectrum sensing are performed using GPU NVIDIA RTX2080Ti.NUC i5 and NUC i7 boards are used for several activities of the group, such as controlling outdoor spectrum sensors and LiFi infrastructure. The LiFi lab unit of the group includes several OpenVLC boards, it hosts different testbeds based on a large number of OpenVLC boards, moved through the OpenBuilds Acro Systems, and has the software and laboratory equipment to develop new versions and extensions of OpenVLC boards such as Agilent 3000 X-series oscilloscope. Finally, the group has an FPC1000 Spectrum Analyzer of Rohde&Schwarz that goes from 5kHz to 3GHz. It may be used transversally to all projects in the group to analyze RF emissions at different bands.
Intranet
Contact
- Group leader: Domenico Giustiniano
- Email: domenico.giustiniano@imdea.org
- Contact phone: +34 914 816 970
- Fax: 3491481696
Office & Postal Address
- IMDEA Networks Institute
- Avda. del Mar Mediterraneo, 22
- 28918 Leganes (Madrid)
- SPAIN