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Future Internet-of-Things (IoT) will connect billions of small computing devices embedded in the environment and support their device-to-device (D2D) communication. Powering this massive number of embedded devices is a key challenge of…
Motivated by the recent advances in the Internet of Things (IoT) and in Wireless Power Transfer (WPT), we study a network architecture that consists of power beacons (PBs) and passive backscatter nodes (BNs). The PBs transmit a sinusoidal…
Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks are expected to support the wireless connection of massive energy limited IoT nodes. The emerging wireless powered backscatter communications (WPBC) enable IoT nodes to harvest energy from the incident…
The rapid growth of IoT driven by recent advancements in consumer electronics, 5G communication technologies, and cloud-computing enabled big-data analytics, has recently attracted tremendous attention from both the industry and academia.…
The Internet of Things (IoT) comprises an increasing number of low-power and low-cost devices that autonomously interact with the surrounding environment. As a consequence of their popularity, future IoT deployments will be massive, which…
Future Internet-of-Things (IoT) is expected to wirelessly connect billions of low-complexity devices. For wireless information transfer (WIT) in IoT, high density of IoT devices and their ad hoc communication result in strong interference…
Wireless powered backscatter communications is an attractive technology for next-generation low-powered sensor networks such as the Internet of Things. However, backscattering suffers from collisions due to multiple simultaneous…
Backscatter communication is a hot candidate for future IoT systems. It offers the possibility for connectivity with tiny amounts of energy that can be easily obtained from energy harvesting. This is possible as backscatter devices do not…
Ambient backscatter communication technology has been introduced recently, and is then quickly becoming a promising choice for self-sustainable communication systems as an external power supply or a dedicated carrier emitter is not…
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has recently been emerged as an effective way for improving the performance of wireless networks by reconfiguring the propagation environment through a large number of passive reflecting elements. This…
In an era driven by the Internet of Things (IoT) and rapid wireless communication advances, the synergy between sensing and backscatter communication (BackCom) has emerged as a frontier of research. This paper delves deep into the…
Wireless energy transfer (WET) is emerging as an enabling green technology for Internet of Things (IoT) networks. WET allows the IoT devices to wirelessly recharge their batteries with energy from external sources such as dedicated radio…
Backscatter Communication (BackCom), which is based on passive reflection and modulation of an incident radio-frequency (RF) wave, has emerged as a cutting-edge technological paradigm for self-sustainable Internet-of-things (IoT).…
Microwave power transfer (MPT) delivers energy wirelessly from stations called power beacons (PBs) to mobile devices by microwave radiation. This provides mobiles practically infinite battery lives and eliminates the need of power cords and…
The recent advanced wireless energy harvesting technology has enabled wireless-powered communications to accommodate wireless data services in a self-sustainable manner. However, wireless-powered communications rely on active RF signals to…
The rapid growth of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices demands communication systems that are both spectrally efficient and energy frugal. Backscatter communication (BackCom) is an attractive low-power paradigm, but its spectral efficiency…
Backscatter communication offers a promising solution to connect massive Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices with low cost and high energy efficiency. Nevertheless, its inherently passive nature limits transmission reliability, thereby…
The integration of security and energy efficiency in Internet of Things systems remains a critical challenge, particularly for battery-free and resource-constrained devices. This paper explores the scalability and protocol-agnostic nature…
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…
Backscatter communication is a burgeoning low-power communication technology that has been introduced into the Internet of Things (IoT) due to its excellent self-sustainability. However, conventional backscatter communication (BackCom)…