Poster: mSync -- Frames without Preambles

Abstract

These days the Internet of Things is about to come part of our everyday live. Already today we are surrounded by a vast amount of simple low data rate wireless systems. The applications for those systems are manifold and include weather stations, sensors in industrial automation, car key fobs, and alarm systems. Most recently, car and plane manufacturers started replacing wired sensors with wireless systems to save cabling and, thus, weight and fuel. Typically, frame-based single carrier systems are used. These rely on a preamble for synchronizing to the signal followed by a Start of Frame Delimiter (SFD) and the actual data. Due to short frames sizes, the preamble introduces considerable overhead regarding energy consumption and wireless channel occupancy.