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Wireless power transmission (WPT) is envisioned to be a promising technology for prolonging the lifetime of wireless devices in energy-constrained networks. This paper presents a general power beacon (PB) assisted multi-source transmission,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-04 Xuanxuan Tang , Yansha Deng , Yueming Cai , Wendong Yang , Arumugam Nallanathan

Radio frequency (RF) wireless energy transfer (WET) is a key technology that may allow seamlessly powering future massive low-energy Internet of Things (IoT) networks. To enable efficient massive WET, channel state information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Onel L. A. López , Hirley Alves , Samuel Montejo-Sánchez , Richard D. Souza , Matti Latva-aho

In this letter, we consider a wireless-powered backscatter communication (WP-BackCom) network, where the transmitter first harvests energy from a dedicated energy RF source in the sleep state, and then backscatters information and harvests…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Yinghui Ye , Liqin Shi , Rose Hu , Guangyue Lu

Backscatter communication, relying on the reflection principle, constitutes a promising-enabling technology for lowcost, large-scale, ubiquitous sensor networking. This work makes an overview of the state-of-the-art coherent and noncoherent…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Panos N. Alevizos , Aggelos Bletsas

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have the potential to overcome the deployment constraint of Internet of Things (IoT) in remote or rural area. Wirelessly powered communications (WPC) can address the battery limitation of IoT devices through…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Yalin Liu , Hong-Ning Dai , Qubeijian Wang , Muhammad Imran , Nadra Guizani

In this paper, we introduce the new concept of Crowd-Detectable Zero-Energy-Devices. Such devices harvest solar or ambient light energy to power themselves, backscatter ambient waves to communicate, and are detected simultaneously by a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-13 D. -T. Phan-Huy , D. Barthel , P. Ratajczak , R. Fara , M. di Renzo , J. de Rosny

The integration of backscatter communication (BackCom) technology with integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) technology not only enhances the system sensing performance, but also enables low-power information transmission. This is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-04 Zongyao Zhao , Yuhan Dong , Tiankuo Wei , Xinke Tang , Xiao-Ping Zhang , Zhenyu Liu

The rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) devices in the sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks raises significant generality and scalability challenges due to energy consumption, deployment complexity, and environmental impact.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-06 Boxuan Xie , Yifan Zhang , Kalle Koskinen , Alexis A. Dowhuszko , Jiacheng Wang , Ruichen Zhang , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han , Riku Jäntti

Ambient radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting has emerged as a promising solution for powering small devices and sensors in massive Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem due to its ubiquity and cost efficiency. In this paper, we study joint…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-22 Mustafa A. Kishk , Harpreet S. Dhillon

The success of Internet-of-Things (IoT) paradigm relies on, among other things, developing energy-efficient communication techniques that can enable information exchange among billions of battery-operated IoT devices. With its technological…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-26 J. Kartheek Devineni , Harpreet S. Dhillon

Attaining the vision of Smart Cities requires the deployment of an enormous number of sensors for monitoring various conditions of the environment. Backscatter-sensors have emerged to be a promising solution due to the uninterruptible…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-11 Guangxu Zhu , Seung-Woo Ko , Kaibin Huang

This paper proposes and investigates an overlay spectrum sharing system in conjunction with the simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) to enable communications for the Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Considered…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-15 Devendra Singh Gurjar , Ha H. Nguyen , Hoang D. Tuan

The meta-material sensor has been regarded as a next-generation sensing technology for the battery-free Internet of Things (IoT) due to its battery-free characteristic and improved sensing performance. The meta-material sensors function as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-12 Xu Liu , Hongliang Zhang , Kaigui Bian , Xi Weng , Lingyang Song

To improve sustainability, Internet-of-Things (IoT) is increasingly adopting battery-free devices powered by ambient energy scavenged from the environment. The unpredictable availability of ambient energy leads to device intermittency,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Gaosheng Liu , Kasım Sinan Yıldırım , Lin Wang

With the commencement of the 5G of wireless networks, researchers around the globe have started paying their attention to the imminent challenges that may emerge in the beyond 5G (B5G) era. Various revolutionary technologies and innovative…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-23 Syed Junaid Nawaz , Shree Krishna Sharma , Babar Mansoor , Mohmammad N. Patwary , Noor M. Khan

This paper considers an ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) network in which a full-duplex access point (FAP) simultaneously transmits downlink orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signals to its legacy user (LU) and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Gang Yang , Dongdong Yuan , Ying-Chang Liang , Rui Zhang , Victor C. M. Leung

The efficiency of wireless information and power transfer (WIPT) systems requires an essential reevaluation and rethinking of the entire transceiver chain, which is characterized by a bottom-up multi-layer design approach. In this paper, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-13 Ioannis Krikidis , Constantinos Psomas

The wireless blockchain network (WBN) concept, born from the blockchain deployed in wireless networks, has appealed to many network scenarios. Blockchain consensus mechanisms (CMs) are key to enabling nodes in a wireless network to achieve…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Haoxiang Luo , Qianqian Zhang , Gang Sun , Hongfang Yu , Dusit Niyato

This paper studies a novel user cooperation method in a wireless powered communication network (WPCN), where a pair of closely located devices first harvest wireless energy from an energy node (EN) and then use the harvested energy to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Wanran Xu , Suzhi Bi , Xiaohui Lin , Juan Wang

Backscatter-based integrated sensing and communication (B-ISAC) elevates passive tags into information-bearing scatterers, offering an ultra-low-power path toward dual-function wireless systems. However, this promise is fundamentally…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Haohao Zhang , Bowen Gu , Xianhua Yu , Hao Xie , Liejun Wang , Yongjun Xu , Xiaoming Tao , Haijun Zhang