In this paper, we introduce a testbed for testing the RF energy transfer technology in the Internet of Things (IoT) environment, and provide experimental results obtained by using the testbed. The IoT environment considered in this paper consists of a power beacon, which is able to wirelessly transfers energy via microwave, and multiple sensor nodes, which makes use of the energy received from the power beacon. We have implemented the testbed to experiment the RF energy transfer in such IoT environment. We have used off-the-shelf hardware components to build the testbed and have made the tesbed controlled by software so that various energy and data transmission protocol experiments can easily be conducted. We also provide experimental results and discuss the future research direction.
In this paper, we propose an overload control scheme to resolve an overload problem in a random access channel of cellular machine-to-machine (M2M) communication networks. The M2M applications are characterized by small-sized data intermittently transmitted by a massive number of machines. Due to this characteristics, an overload situation in random access channel (RACH) can happen when a large number of devices try to send a signal via the RACH. To address this overload problem, we propose a scheme in which a base station estimates the total load in the network and controls the load by using a p-persistent method based on the estimated load.
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