Zero-energy Devices for 6G: Technical Enablers at a Glance

no code implementations • 14 Feb 2024 • Onel López, Ritesh Kumar Singh, Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy, Efstathios Katranaras, Nafiseh Mazloum, Riku Jäntti, Hamza Khan, Osmel Rosabal, Pavlos Alexias, Prasoon Raghuwanshi, David Ruiz-Guirola, Bikramjit Singh, Andreas Höglund, Dung Pham Van, Amirhossein Azarbahram, Jeroen Famaey

Low-cost, resource-constrained, maintenance-free, and energy-harvesting (EH) Internet of Things (IoT) devices, referred to as zero-energy devices (ZEDs), are rapidly attracting attention from industry and academia due to their myriad of applications.

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Analyzing Novel Grant-Based and Grant-Free Access Schemes for Small Data Transmission

no code implementations • 20 Feb 2021 • Hui Zhou, Yansha Deng, Luca Feltrin, Andreas Höglund

Motivated by this, 3GPP has proposed 4/2-step SDT RA schemes based on the existing grant-based (4-step) and grant-free (2-step) RA schemes, with the aim to enable data transmission during RA procedures in Radio Resource Control (RRC) Inactive state.