Publications

TikuOS integrates over a decade of our research efforts in designing low-power embedded systems. Below is a selection of key publications organized by topic that have influenced it's design.

Overview

Making Low-power and Long-range Wireless Backscatter Transmitters

ACM GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications (Maker Edition) 2022

doi.org/10.1145/3551670.3551672

Sensing & Energy Harvesting

TunnelLiFi: Bringing LiFi to Commodity Devices

The Twenty-fourth International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (ACM HotMobile 2023)

doi.org/10.1145/3572864.3580327

Demonstration: Towards Battery-free Radio Tomographic Imaging

The Eleventh ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (ACM WiSec 2018)

Best Demonstration Award doi.org/10.1145/3212480.3226107

Battery-free Visible Light Sensing

ACM VLCS (Co-located with ACM MobiCom) 2017

Best Paper Award ACM Student Research Competition Winner (Graduate, MobiCom) doi.org/10.1145/3129881.3129890

Communication (Transmitter)

AudioCast: Enabling Ubiquitous Connectivity for Embedded Systems through Audio-broadcasting Low-power Tags

Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (ACM IMWUT 2025)

doi.org/10.1145/3729471

Judo: Addressing the Energy Asymmetry of Wireless Embedded Systems through Tunnel Diode based Wireless Transmitters

The Twentieth ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (ACM MobiSys 2022)

doi.org/10.1145/3498361.3538923

TunnelEmitter: Tunnel Diode based Low-Power Carrier Emitters for Backscatter Tags

The Twenty Sixth Annual International Conference On Mobile Computing And Networking (ACM MobiCom 2020)

doi.org/10.1145/3372224.3419199

TunnelScatter: Low Power Communication for Sensor Tags using Tunnel Diodes

The Twenty Fifth Annual International Conference On Mobile Computing And Networking (ACM MobiCom 2019)

doi.org/10.1145/3300061.3345451

LoRea: A Backscatter Architecture that Achieves a Long Communication Range

Fifteenth ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (ACM SenSys 2017)

2019 ABB Research Award Winner doi.org/10.1145/3131672.3136996

Towards wide-area backscatter networks

ACM HotWireless (Co-located with ACM MobiCom) 2017

doi.org/10.1145/3127882.3127888

Communication (Receiver)

Unraveling the Missing Link in Low-power Communication: An Autodyning Receiver Architecture that Achieves a Long Range

The Twenty-third Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (ACM MobiSys 2025)

doi.org/10.1145/3711875.3729164

Two to Tango: Hybrid Light and Backscatter Networks for Next Billion Devices

The Eighteenth ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (ACM MobiSys 2020)

doi.org/10.1145/3386901.3388918

Connecting Battery-free IoT Tags Using LED Bulbs

The Eighteenth ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (ACM HotNets 2019)

doi.org/10.1145/3286062.3286077

Battery-free 802.15.4 Receiver

The Seventeenth ACM/IEEE Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (ACM/IEEE IPSN 2018)

doi.org/10.1109/IPSN.2018.00045

Security

Securing Battery-free Backscatter Tags through Fingerprinting

The Twentieth ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (ACM HotNets 2021)

doi.org/10.1145/3484266.3487388