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We present the first wireless protocol that scales to hundreds of concurrent transmissions from backscatter devices. Our key innovation is a distributed coding mechanism that works below the noise floor, operates on backscatter devices and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Mehrdad Hessar , Ali Najafi , Shyamnath Gollakota

Backscatter Communication (BackCom) technology has emerged as a promising paradigm for the Green Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem, offering advantages such as low power consumption, cost-effectiveness, and ease of deployment. While…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Shumaila Javaid , Hamza Fahim , Bin He , Nasir Saeed

Battery-free Internet of Things (BF-IoT) enabled by backscatter communication is a rapidly evolving technology offering advantages of low cost, ultra-low power consumption, and robustness. However, the practical deployment of BF-IoT is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-14 Taorui Liu , Xu Liu , Zhiquan Xu , Houfeng Chen , Hongliang Zhang , Lingyang Song

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Kaifeng Han , Kaibin Huang

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)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Weilin Chen

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.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Wanchun Liu , Kaibin Huang , Xiangyun Zhou , Salman Durrani

Ambient backscatter is an intriguing wireless communication paradigm that allows small devices to compute and communicate by using only the power they harvest from radio-frequency (RF) signals in the air. Ambient backscattering devices…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Donatella Darsena , Giacinto Gelli , Francesco Verde

As a key low-power communication technique, backscatter communication has received significant attention since the rising of the Internet of Things (IoT). We revisit the state-of-the-art backscatter system, RBLE [1]. It solves several key…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-02 Bohan Lou

Micro-scale implantable medical devices (IMDs) extend the immense benefits of sensors used in health management. However, their development is limited by many requirements and challenges, such as the use of safe materials, size…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Michael Okwori , Ali Behfarnia , Phanikumar Vuka , Ali Eslami

The boom of the Internet of Things has revolutionized people's lives, but it has also resulted in massive resource consumption and environmental pollution. Recently, Green IoT (GIoT) has become a worldwide consensus to address this issue.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Yimeng Huang , Lijie Liu , Jihong Yu , Yuguang Fang , Wei Gong

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).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Sarah Basharat , Syed Ali Hassan , Aamir Mahmood , Zhiguo Ding , Mikael Gidlund

Recent years have seen major innovations in developing energy-efficient wireless technologies such as Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) for Internet of Things (IoT). Despite demonstrating significant benefits in providing low power transmission…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Wei Wang , Shiyue He , Liang Sun , Tao Jiang , Qian Zhang

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Wanchun Liu , Kaibin Huang , Xiangyun Zhou , Salman Durrani

Internet-of-Things (IoT) is rapidly growing in wireless technology, aiming to connect vast numbers of devices to gather and distribute vital information. Despite individual devices having low energy consumption, the cumulative demand…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Shayan Zargari , Azar Hakimi , Fatemeh Rezaei , Chintha Tellambura , Amine Maaref

The use of miniaturized biomedical devices implanted in the human body and wirelessly internetworked is promising a significant leap forward in medical treatment of many pervasive diseases. Recognizing the well-understood limitations of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-02-07 G. Enrico Santagati , Tommaso Melodia , Laura Galluccio , Sergio Palazzo

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

A choice of wireless technologies is available today. Not all of them are suitable to be used in a instrument control network at a neutron scattering facility. This paper will start with an overview of the wireless communication protocols…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Joern Beckmann , Joerg Pulz

Future wireless networks targeted for improving spectral and energy efficiency, are expected to simultaneously provide sensing functionality and support low-power communications. This paper proposes a novel net-zero integrated sensing and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Yu Zhang , Tongyang Xu , Christos Masouros , Zhu Han

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

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