Wireless communication and localization systems under spatial and temporal channel variations

Wireless signals inevitably vary in time and space. The three chapters of this dissertation revolve around the exploitation of signal variations. This line of work has yielded new link-layer protocols for rateless codes on half-duplex additive white Gaussian noise channels; a new abstraction for short-range mobile-to-mobile and mobile-to-infrastructure "room-area" networks that adhere to the spatial boundaries of human conversation; a reduced-complexity tone reservation algorithm for optimizing signals to avoid amplifier non-linearities; and new tools for the study of physical-layer privacy and anonymity in wireless systems.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctoral

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• Iannucci, Peter Anthony.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Hari Balakrishnan.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Statement dc:rights

• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/121651

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/121651