Frequency Agile and Low Power Homodyne Radio Receivers

dc.contributor.advisorHelaoui, Mohamed
dc.contributor.authorHasan, Abul
dc.contributor.committeememberBelostotski, Leonid
dc.contributor.committeememberGhannouchi, Fadhel M.
dc.contributor.committeememberSesay, Abu-Bakarr
dc.contributor.committeememberO'Keefe, Kyle Patrick Gordon
dc.contributor.committeememberWu, Ke
dc.date2018-11
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-30T20:01:04Z
dc.date.available2018-05-30T20:01:04Z
dc.date.issued2018-05-29
dc.description.abstractMore than 100 billion devices are expected to be connected wirelessly by 2020 as expected from the Internet of Things (IoT) and 5G deployments. Reconfigurability and sustainable power consumption are two of the major concerns to cope up with the expected changes. In the light of the above challenges, two low-power, frequency agile and broadband radio receiver architectures, namely, the six-port receiver (SPR) and the N-path passive mixer (P-M) receiver, have been explored in this thesis. First, a complexity reduced calibration approach for the SPR is developed that would reduce the power consumption of the SPR system. After analyzing the advantages and drawbacks of the SPR and the N-path P-M receiver architectures, a new quadrature phase shift frequency selective (QPS-FS) receiver architecture is proposed that attempts to retain the advantages of both the existing architectures while it tries to eliminate or minimize their drawbacks. The proposed QPS-FS receiver is a frequency selective architecture in which the desired band RF signal at the signal carrier frequency equal to the local oscillator clock frequency is frequency down-converted and quadrature (I/Q) demodulated while the in- and out-of-band blocker and interferer signals are reflected and collected that could be used for energy harvesting purposes. The thesis culminates in the proposal and implementation of a novel broadband, frequency reconfigurable, low power, blockers and system impairments tolerant energy harvesting radio receiver architecture that is frequency selective, concurrently utilizing the in-band RF signal for information decoding and the in- and out-of-band blocker and interferer signals for energy harvesting for increased battery-life or self-sustainable operation of the receiver system.en_US
dc.identifier.citationHasan, A. (2018). Frequency Agile and Low Power Homodyne Radio Receivers (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/31962en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/31962
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/106717
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisher.facultyGraduate Studies
dc.publisher.facultySchulich School of Engineering
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.publisher.placeCalgaryen
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.
dc.subjectdirect conversion receiver
dc.subjectenergy harvesting
dc.subjectfrequency reconfigurable
dc.subjectlow power
dc.subjectmulti-phase clocks
dc.subjectselectivity
dc.subjectself-powered
dc.subjectself-sustainable
dc.subjectsix-port receiver
dc.subject.classificationEngineering--Electronics and Electricalen_US
dc.titleFrequency Agile and Low Power Homodyne Radio Receivers
dc.typedoctoral thesis
thesis.degree.disciplineElectrical and Computer Engineering
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgary
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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