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Backscatter radio is a promising technology for low-cost and low-power Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks. The conventional monostatic backscatter radio is constrained by its limited communication range, which restricts its utility in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-17 Kartik Patel , Junbo Zhang , John Kimionis , Lefteris Kampianakis , Michael S. Eggleston , Jinfeng Du

Collecting data from massive Internet of Things (IoT) devices is a challenging task, since communication circuits are power-demanding while energy supply at IoT devices is limited. To overcome this challenge, backscatter communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Shuai Wang , Minghua Xia , Yik-Chung Wu

Future wireless networks are expected to connect large-scale low-powered communication devices using the available spectrum resources. Backscatter communications (BC) is an emerging technology towards battery-free transmission in future…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-03 Wali Ullah Khan , Eva Lagunas , Asad Mahmood , Zain Ali , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten , Octavia A. Dobre

Transformer models are rapidly becoming a cornerstone of modern Internet of Things (IoT) applications, yet their computational and memory demands far exceed the capabilities of a single typical ultra-low-power IoT device. We present CATS, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Alexander Gräfe , Ding Huo , Vincent de Bakker , Johannes Berger , Marco Zimmerling , Sebastian Trimpe

Wireless power transfer (WPT) using energy beamforming is a promising solution for low power Internet of Things (IoT) devices. In this work, we consider WPT from an energy transmitter (ET) employing retrodirective WPT using a large phased…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Sahar Idrees , Xiangyun Zhou , Salman Durrani , Dusit Niyato

WiFi backscatter tags can enable direct connectivity of IoT devices with commodity WiFi hardware at low power. However, most state of the art backscatter tag implementations in this area have limited transmitter to tag range, are not…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-17 Manideep Dunna , Shihkai Kuo , Akshit Agarwal , Patrick Mercier , Dinesh Bharadia

In this paper, we consider a new large-scale communication scheme where randomly distributed AmBC nodes are involved as secondary users to primary transmitter (PT) and primary receiver (PR) pairs. The secondary communication between a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Dong Han , Hlaing Minn

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems potentially encounter significant performance degradation in densely obstructed urban and non-line-of-sight scenarios, thus limiting their effectiveness in practical deployments. To deal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Yifan Zhang , Yu Bai , Riku Jantti , Zheng Yan , Christos Masouros , Zhu Han

As wireless has disrupted communications, wireless will also disrupt the delivery of energy. Future wireless networks will be equipped with (radiative) wireless power transfer (WPT) capability and exploit radio waves to carry both energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Bruno Clerckx , Junghoon Kim , Kae Won Choi , Dong In Kim

Wireless energy transfer (WET) is a green enabler of low-power Internet of Things (IoT). Therein, traditional optimization schemes relying on full channel state information (CSI) are often too costly to implement due to excessive energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Onel L. A. López , Francisco A. Monteiro , Hirley Alves , Rui Zhang , Matti Latva-aho

In next-generation wireless systems, providing location-based mobile computing services for energy-neutral devices has become a crucial objective for the provision of sustainable Internet of Things (IoT). Visible light positioning (VLP) has…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-03 Boxuan Xie , Lauri Mela , Alexis A. Dowhuszko , Yu Bai , Zehui Xiong , Zhu Han , Dusit Niyato , Riku Jäntti

Device-to-device (D2D) communication enables us to spread information in the local area without infrastructure support. In this paper, we focus on information spreading in mobile wireless networks where all nodes move around. The source…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-06-04 Jinho Choi , Seung Min Yu , Seong-Lyun Kim

Deployment of low cost power beacons (PBs) is a promising solution for dedicated wireless power transfer (WPT) in future wireless networks. In this paper, we present a tractable model for PB-assisted millimeter wave (mmWave) wireless ad hoc…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Xiaohui Zhou , Jing Guo , Salman Durrani , Marco Di Renzo

Considering the exponential growth of Internet-of-Things devices and the goals toward sustainable networks, the complexity should be focused on the infrastructure side. For a massive number of passive devices, backscatter communication (BC)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-14 Ahmet Kaplan , Diana P. M. Osorio , Erik G. Larsson

Radio frequency (RF) wireless energy transfer (WET) is a promising technology for powering the growing ecosystem of Internet of Things (IoT) using power beacons (PBs). Recent research focuses on efficient PB architectures that can support…

Backscatter communication (BackCom), one of the core technologies to realize zero-power communication, is expected to be a pivotal paradigm for the next generation of the Internet of Things (IoT). However, the "strong" direct link (DL)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Bowen Gu , Dong Li , Ye Liu , Yongjun Xu

Towards realizing an intelligent networked society, enabling low-cost low-energy connectivity for things, also known as Internet of Things (IoT), is of crucial importance. While the existing wireless access networks require centralized…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-05 Amin Azari , Mahmoud Abbasi

Backscatter system is a system based on backscatter communication technology, which is a low cost, low power consumption and easy to deploy communication technology. At present, the backscatter technology is mainly applied to RFID tags and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Jincheng Guan , Jun Zhang

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis and theoretical foundation for next-generation backscatter networks that move beyond communication and integrate RF location sensing capabilities. An end-to-end system model for wideband OFDM…

This paper presents a lightweight, protocol-agnostic security enhancement for Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer (SWIPT) in Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Building on a backscatter-based identification mechanism,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Taki Eddine Djidjekh , Alexandru Takacs , Gaël Loubet , Lamoussa Sanogo , Daniela Dragomirescu