Title :
Harvesting a clock from a GSM signal for the wake-up of a wireless sensor network
Author :
Brown, Jonathan K. ; Wentzloff, David D.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
fDate :
May 30 2010-June 2 2010
Abstract :
This paper presents a low-power technique for harvesting a clock from the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) cellular network for the purpose of waking up and synchronizing nodes in a wireless sensor network. The 21-Hz clock is embedded within the broadcast channel of every GSM cell worldwide, making it a pervasive synchronization source. A low-power receiver architecture is presented to harvest the signal. Based on simulation results, the architecture can extract the clock with an error probability of less than 10-4. Finally, a discrete prototype was built to verify the functionality of the receiver architecture.
Keywords :
cellular radio; clocks; radio receivers; wireless sensor networks; GSM signal; error probability; global system for mobile communications cellular network; low-power receiver architecture; pervasive synchronization source; wireless sensor network; Biomedical measurements; Broadcasting; Clocks; GSM; Land mobile radio cellular systems; Mobile communication; Signal generators; Synchronization; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Proceedings of 2010 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Paris
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5308-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5309-2
DOI :
10.1109/ISCAS.2010.5537364
