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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

Eavesdropping on voice conversations presents a growing threat to personal privacy and information security. In this paper, we present RadEar, a novel RF backscatter-based system designed to enable covert voice eavesdropping through walls.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Qijun Wang , Peihao Yan , Chunqi Qian , Huacheng Zeng

Wireless sensors in extreme environments such as underground, concrete wall, and the human body, can enable a large number of important applications. However, deploying wireless sensors in such environments on a large scale is a great…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-24 Hongzhi Guo , Zhi Sun

Recent years have witnessed the rapid proliferation of low-power backscatter technologies that realize the ubiquitous and long-term connectivity to empower smart cities and smart homes. Localizing such low-power backscatter tags is crucial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Shengkai Zhang , Wei Wang , Sheyang Tang , Shi Jin , Tao Jiang

Continued progress towards energy-neutral Internet of Things (IoT) nodes expose the wireless communication link as the dominant energy bottleneck. While low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) technologies achieve long-range communication with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-13 Tijl Schepens , Gilles Callebaut , Liesbet Van der Perre

Backscatter communication has attracted significant attention for Internet-of-Things applications due to its ultra-low-power consumption. The state-of-the-art backscatter systems no longer require dedicated carrier generators and leverage…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Qiwei Wang , Wei Gong

In this paper we present a simple, stochastic-geometric model of a wireless access network exploiting the LoRA (Long Range) protocol, which is a non-expensive technology allowing for long-range, single-hop connectivity for the Internet of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Bartłomiej Błaszczyszyn , Paul Mühlethaler

Ultra wideband technology has shown great promise for providing high-quality location estimation, even in complex indoor multipath environments, but existing ultra wideband systems require tens to hundreds of milliwatts during operation.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Pat Pannuto , Benjamin Kempke , Prabal Dutta

Long-range (LoRa) technology is most widely used for enabling low-power wide area networks (WANs) on unlicensed frequency bands. Despite its modest data rates, it provides extensive coverage for low-power devices, making it an ideal…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Mohammed Jouhari , Nasir Saeed , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , El Mehdi Amhoud

The Long-Range (LoRa) protocol, known for its extensive range and low power, has increasingly been adopted in tags worn by mentally incapacitated persons (MIPs) and others at risk of going missing. We study the sequential decision-making…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Tianlang He , Zhongming Lin , Tianrui Jiang , S. -H. Gary Chan

LoRa is one of the most widely used low-power wide-area network technology for the Internet of Things. To achieve long-range communication with low power consumption at a low cost, LoRa uses a chirp spread spectrum modulation and transmits…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-10 Joachim Tapparel , Andreas Burg

Recent years have witnessed the rapid proliferation of backscatter technologies that realize the ubiquitous and long-term connectivity to empower smart cities and smart homes. Localizing such backscatter tags is crucial for IoT-based smart…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-28 Shengkai Zhang , Wei Wang , Sheyang Tang , Shi Jin , Tao Jiang

Due to extremely low power consumption, backscatter has become the transmission mechanism of choice for battery-free devices that operate on harvested energy. However, a limitation of recent backscatter systems is that the communication…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Ambuj Varshney , Andreas Soleiman , Thiemo Voigt

Ambient backscatter communications have been introduced as low-power communications for green networking. This technology is very promising as it recycles ambient radio frequency waves, however such systems have limitations and suffer from…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-04 Romain Fara , Nada Bel-Haj-Maati , Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy , Nadine Malhouroux , Marco Di Renzo

This work describes the design and implementation of a low-power wireless communication system for transmitting text using ESP32 modules and the LoRa DXLR01. The proposal arises as a solution to connectivity and energy-efficiency problems…

Backscatter is a key technology for battery-free sensing in industrial IoT applications. To fully cover numerous tags in the deployment area, one often needs to deploy multiple readers, each of which communicates with tags within its…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yang Zou , Xin Na , Yimiao Sun , Yuan He

In this work, we exploit the radar clutter (i.e., the ensemble of echoes generated by the terrain and/or the surrounding objects in response to the signal emitted by a radar transmitter) as a carrier signal to enable an ambient backscatter…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-07 Luca Venturino , Emanuele Grossi , Marco Lops , Jeremy Johnston , Xiaodong Wang

Low-power and long-range communication tech- nologies such as LoRa are becoming popular in IoT applications due to their ability to cover kilometers range with milliwatt of power consumption. One of the major drawbacks of LoRa is the data…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Rajeev Piyare , Amy L. Murphy , Michele Magno , Luca Benini

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a widely used technology for identifying and locating objects equipped with low-cost RFID transponders (tags). UHF (Ultra High Frequency) RFID operates in frequency bands around 900 MHz and supports…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-26 Clemens Korn , Joerg Robert

Low power long-range networks like LoRa have become increasingly mainstream for Internet of Things deployments. Given the versatility of applications that these protocols enable, they support many data rates and bandwidths. Yet, for a given…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Zerina Kapetanovic , Deepak Vasisht , Tusher Chakraborty , Joshua R. Smith , Ranveer Chandra