Ultra-wideband (UWB) has become one of the most promising technologies for indoor positioning thanks to its robustness and high time-domain resolution. Indeed, UWB devices are nowadays ubiquitous: big players such as Apple, Samsung, and Xiaomi have started to include UWB radios into their high-end smartphones; where as car manufacturers already rely on this technology to enable secure access to vehicles. As this communication technology becomes pervasive, there is a need to further increase its energy-efficiency, as several location-aware IoT applications running on tiny low-power embedded devices will soon disrupt the market.
To this end, we aim to exploit the latest generation UWB transceivers (e.g., NXP Trimension,Qorvo DW3000) to develop energy-efficient MAC protocols that can offer at the same time a high scalability and a reliable communication performance.In this project, you will hence be focusing on the next-generation UWB transceivers, and investigate new communication paradigms for UWB-based systems, ultimately evaluating the performance of your solution and comparing it to the state of the art.