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RF-SIFTER: Sifting Signals at Layer-0.5 to Mitigate Wideband Cross-Technology Interference for IoT

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ACM MobiCom '23: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking

Article No.: 12, Pages 1 - 14

https://doi.org/10.1145/3570361.3592513

Published: 10 July 2023 Publication History

Abstract

IoT uplink performance is crucial for a wide variety of IoT applications such as health sensing and industrial control, which demand reliable delivery of sensor data to the cloud. However, due to the limited transmission power budget imposed on many power-constrained IoT devices, IoT uplinks are highly susceptible to cross-technology interference (CTI) caused by coexisting networks. Previous approaches to mitigating CTI have relied on MAC/PHY designs. They suffer from poor performance and limited generality in the presence of wideband CTI sources such as Wi-Fi and RF jammer, which transmit aggressively on large spectrum chunks using diverse radio technologies.

This paper introduces RF-SIFTER, a general and highly-effective system that protects low-power IoT uplinks against intensive wideband CTI. RF-SIFTER enables technology-agnostic blind beamforming to sift signals based on bandwidth, allowing IoT signals to pass through while rejecting interference wider than the IoT band. RF-SIFTER is designed as a Layer-0.5 that is transparent to IoT MAC/PHY, ensuring general applicability and practical deployability across a wide range of coexistence scenarios. RF-SIFTER is implemented on an FPGA-based software radio platform. Extensive experiments show that RF-SIFTER can improve the SINR of IoT uplink signals by up to 29 dB and increase packet delivery ratio by 2× to 5× for ZigBee, BLE, and RFID in the presence of wideband CTI caused by 802.11ac networks and RF jamming.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3643832.3661862
Dai TShi BLuo G(2023)Weave: Abstraction and Integration Flow for Accelerators of Generated ModulesIEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems10.1109/TCAD.2023.332597243:3(854-867)Online publication date: 19-Oct-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/TCAD.2023.3325972

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RF-SIFTER: Sifting Signals at Layer-0.5 to Mitigate Wideband Cross-Technology Interference for IoT
1. Networks
  1. Network protocols
    1. Network protocol design

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Wang SYan YHan FTian YDing YYang PLi XOkoshi TKo JLiKamWa R(2024)MultiRider: Enabling Multi-Tag Concurrent OFDM Backscatter by Taming In-band InterferenceProceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services10.1145/3643832.3661862(292-303)Online publication date: 3-Jun-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3643832.3661862
Dai TShi BLuo G(2023)Weave: Abstraction and Integration Flow for Accelerators of Generated ModulesIEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems10.1109/TCAD.2023.332597243:3(854-867)Online publication date: 19-Oct-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/TCAD.2023.3325972

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