The IoT Physical Layer: Design and Implementation

Part 1. Advanced Materials and Sensors.- Reduced Graphene Oxide for the Design of Electrocardiogram Sensors: Current Status and Perspectives.- A Preliminary Evaluation of Continuous, Shoe-IntegratedWeight Measurements for Heart Failure Patients.- ALD Al-doped ZnO Thin Film as Semiconductor and Piezoelectric Material: Process Synthesis.- ALD Al-doped ZnO Thin Film as Semiconductor and Piezoelectric Material: Characterization.- ALD Al doped ZnO Thin Film as Semiconductor and Piezoelectric Material: Transistors and Sensors.- Lab-on-Chip Silicon Photonics Sensor.- Part 2. Architectures and Circuits.- Design Challenges in Wireless Sensors for Dental Applications.- Energy-Efficient Body Area Network Transceiver Using Body Coupled Communication.- Ultra-low power ECG Processor for IoT SOCs.- Time-delay Array Beamforming for Millimeter Wave IoT Systems.- Part 3. Algorithms and Protocols.- Nature-Inspired Optimization in the Era of IoT: Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) Applied to Indoor Distributed Antenna Systems (I-DAS).- Low-power, Dynamic-data-rate Protocol for IoT Communication.- Efficient Algorithm for VT/VF Prediction for IoT SoCs.- MSER-in-chip: An Efficient Vision Tool for IoT Devices.- Part 4. Power Management.- A Low Power, High Resolution ZCS Control for Inductor-based Converters.- Power Management Unit for IoT.- Macromodeling of Microbatteries for IoT Micro-power Source Integration.- Part 5. Systems and Security.- Self-Powered SoC Platform forWearable Health Care.- Toward An Integrated, Low-power Platform for Continuous Congestive Heart-failure Monitoring.- Hardware Security and Trust: Logic Locking as a Design-for-Trust Solution.