In our daily life we are surrounded by a vast amount of low-power wireless systems used for industrial automation, weather stations, and car key fobs, for example. Driven by the idea of an Internet of Things these systems are about to become even more ubiquitous. Most of these networks have two things in common: First, the network structure is heterogeneous with simple energy constrained sensors and more sophisticated sinks. Second, they transmit in bursts using frame-based single-carrier systems. Usually, the frames of those systems have a similar structure. They consists of preamble symbols for synchronization, followed by a Start of Frame Delimiter (SFD) and the actual data payload. Given the small maximum frame sizes, the preamble and SFD can introduce considerable overhead in terms of energy consumption and occupancy of the wireless channel.
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@inproceedings{bloessl2015msync2,
address = {Paris, France},
author = {Bloessl, Bastian and Dressler, Falko},
booktitle = {21st ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2015), 7th Wireless of the Students, by the Students, for the Students Workshop (S3 2015), Demo Session},
doi = {10.1145/2801694.2801698},
month = {September},
pages = {24-24},
publisher = {ACM},
title = {{mSync in Action}},
year = {2015},
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