Institut Mines-telecom

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Aslan Tchamkerten

Venkat Chandar

Manuj Mukherjee

Chadi Jabbour

A channel sensing device for detecting preamble transmission by observing a channel sensing sequence of a length smaller than or equal to a maximum given length, the channel sensing device being implemented in a receiver, the channel sensing sequence includes one or more samples. The channel sensing device is configured to: receive input parameters comprising a target reliability metric, a receiver noise profile, the maximum given length, a received power, and a probability of there being a preamble; determine channel sensing parameters given the input parameters and according to the inimization of the average energy consumption per given length, the channel sensing parameters comprising a number of channel sensing phases, and a number of samples, a receiver power consumption value, and a preamble detection threshold corresponding to each of the channel sensing phases; perform a first channel sensing phase comprising: observing a batch of samples of the one or more samples by consuming the receiver power consumption value corresponding to the first phase channel sensing phase; applying a hypothesis test comprising the comparison of a value derived from the observed samples with the preamble detection threshold corresponding to the first channel sensing phase; deciding on the presence of a preamble or on performing a subsequent channel sensing phase based on the comparison and/or whether the number of channel sensing phases is greater than one; a subsequent channel sensing phase comprising: observing a batch of samples by consuming the receiver power consumption value corresponding to the channel sensing phase; applying a hypothesis test comprising the comparison of a value derived from all of the so far observed samples with the preamble detection threshold; deciding on the presence of a preamble or on performing a subsequent channel sensing phase based on the comparison and/or on a condition related to a number of performed channel sensing phases compared with the number of channel sensing phases.

Devices and methods for low power adaptive channel sensing

A method of detecting transient changes in the distribution of a discrete time series includes: operating in a sparse mode wherein, at sniff periods successively repeated at a first rate, at most K test phases are performed, K being an integer superior or equal to two, each test phase consisting of analyzing, by a sampling stopping time determination unit, samples of the time series captured by a sampler at sampling times according to a second rate which is higher than the first rate to provide a positive or negative result of the test phase. If the results of K successive test phases of a sniff period are each positive, the method switches to operate in a dense mode wherein the sampler is operated to continuously capture samples of the time series at sampling times according to the second sampling rate.

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