Cross-technology interference (CTI) from dense and prevalent wireless has become a primary threat to low-power IoT. This paper presents G-Bee, a CTI avoidance technique that uniquely places ZigBee packet on the guard band of ongoing WiFi traffic, which effectively safeguards the packet from WiFi interference. Such design ensures reliable ZigBee communication even under saturated WiFi traffic where traditional ZigBee is considered inoperable. Technical highlight is in lighweight WiFi guard band capture mechanism using ZigBee PHY layer samples directly accessible in various commercial ZigBee chip. Another exclusive feature of G-Bee is spectrum-synchronized low duty cycling-by utilizing guard bands of periodic WiFi beacons, active slots are effectively synchronized to spectrum availability (i.e., guard band) for significant delay improvement. Extensive evaluations on our prototype system demonstrates G-Bee PRR over 95% where legacy ZigBee drops to below 15% under significant interference with hundreds WiFi users and reduction of low duty cycle delay by 87.5%, all of which are achieved with a light computational overhead of 0.3%. CCS CONCEPTS • Computer systems organization → Sensor networks; • Networks → Wireless personal area networks;
Low power IoT suffers from performance degradation due to severe cross-technology interference (CTI) such as WiFi. In this demo, we present a novel ZigBee system that effectively maintains high reliability even under saturated WiFi traffic. This is achieved by placing a ZigBee packet on the guard band of ongoing, ambient WiFi traffic. Guard band is designed to be kept clear of interference from other WiFi, thereby safeguarding the ZigBee within. Our system effectively captures WiFi (802.11b) guard band on the fly, using physical layer information accessible on commodity ZigBee RF. We demonstrate real-time guard band detection and robust ZigBee communication, showcasing a practical pathway to operating low power IoT under excessive CTI. CCS CONCEPTS • Computer systems organization → Sensor networks; • Networks → Wireless personal area networks;
Massive connectivity is a key to the success of the Internet of Things. While mmWave backscatter has great potential, substantial signal attenuation and overwhelming ambient reflections impose significant challenges. We present OmniScatter, a practical mmWave backscatter with an extreme sensitivity of -115 dBm. The performance is theoretically comparable to the popular commodity RFID EPC Gen2 (900 MHz), and is empirically validated via evaluations under various practical settings with abundant ambient reflections and blockages -e.g., In an office where a tag is locked in a wooden closet 6m away, as well in libraries and retail stores where a tag is placed across two rows of metal shelves. At the heart of OmniScatter is the new High Definition FMCW (HD-FMCW), which interplays with the tag (FSK) signal to disentangle the ambient reflections from the tag signal in the frequency domain, essentially offering immunity to ambient reflections. To further support practical deployment, OmniScatter offers coordination-free Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA) that effortlessly scales to thousands of concurrent tags. The readers were built on commodity radars and the tags were prototyped on PCB. The trace-driven evaluation demonstrates concurrent communication of 1100 tags with the BER < 1.5%, paving a pathway towards practical mmWave backscatter for everyday and anywhere use.
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